THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVII
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 11, 1919.
NUMVER 59
K.U. To Start Million Dollar Drive
ALL TO UNITE IN PUSHING UNIVERSITY AT ASSEMBLY
Judge Ruppenthal of Alumni Board of Visitors Wib Deliver Address at Meeting. Albach to Explain County Club Movement
WILL AWARD D. S. C. TO STUDENT
Dutch Wedell to Explain Launching of Million Dollar Memorial Campaign. Urge All to Wear Arm Bands as Sign of Loyalty
All efforts by different organizations on the Hill to back the Loyalty and Put K. U. First movements will be united into one big effort at the AI-University convocation to be held at 11:30 Friday in Robinson Gymnasium, according to backers of the million dollar drive that has just been launched.
Another feature of the convocation will be the awarding of the first D.S.C. over awarded in Lawrence to Lody Richmond, a pre-medic, who was cited for bravery in service. All K. U. students who have received Distinguished Service Crosses or who have been cited for one will have seats on the platform. A complete list has been provided by the following are among those cited: Howard T. Fleeson, Ray Winters, Eugene Ferreus, and Wint Smith.
"Every one should attend this convocation and show his colors." Rilla Hammat, president of the W. S. G. A., said today, "Several wealthy alumni will be present, and we will need their support in the memorial campaign. They will contribute more freely if they think that the students are behind the school. And every student who comes to the convocation without an arm band will be hurting the memorial campaign."
Judge J. C. Ruppenthal, LLBJS, a member of the Alumni Board of Visitors, will speak on "Loyalty, Why and How," and Robert Albach will explain the work of the county clubs that are being formed and how they can back K. U. at meetings held during the holidays.
Chancellor Strong will preside at the convocation. Following is the program as arranged:
Music by orchestra.
Conferring of D. S. C.
Selection-Men's Club.
Selection-J. C. Rappenthal.
Selection-Women's Glee Club.
Organizations of County Clubs-
Robert Albach.
Memorial Compaign—"Dutch" We dell.
Crimson and Blue—Orchestra an Glee clubs leading.
Arm bands, widely sold among students before Thanksgiving, will blossom forth once more Friday morning at the Loyalty convocation, according to the plans of the promoters of the loyalty campaign.
Although the bands were plentiful before Thanksgiving, few weathered the vacation and appeared on the Hill the following Monday.
"To supply the deficiencies of insignia, armbands will be on sale at Dr. Corbin's office in Fraser Hall, Thursday, and at the gymnasium Friday," said Rilla Hammat, who has charge of the sale of the armbands.
"The convocation is a fine chance for students to show their colors.
Delta Sigma Rho, honorary oratory fraternity, announces the pledging of Prof. A. J. Harno, of the School of Law.
Y. M. C. A. DELEGATES SEE MICHIGAN UNION
Michigan Building has Enormous Dance Hall, Billard Room and Cafeteria
Solves Thousand Problems
Building Provides for Alumni to Use on Home Coming Day
At Michigan University there is a massive building that bears the name "The Student Union." On a recent visit, Mr. Cook visited, Professor Baggartner, William Studer and Marvin Harms made a trip to Ann Arbor to look at this building, in order to get an idea of the students of Kansas would want some day.
"The building is architecturally beautiful, and the design is carried throughout the structure," said Marvin Harms. "In the basement are the showers and baths and a tap room (without some of the old accessories) that would strike near to the heart of every man in K. U. who likes to sit around a table with his friends over a sandwich or soft drink in a compartment. Up on the first floor was an enormous dance hall, and if K. U. had one of these there would be less trouble about dance halls. This floor also contained a billiard room that had so many tables that I couldn't count them, and those were seven reading rooms, and also a dining room.
On the upper floors were guest rooms for the alumni who come back on Homecoming Day and at any other time. These rooms will accommodate the great crowds that come back to 'heir Alma Mater.
"Altogather the building would help
o solve a thousand problems that
ave presented themselves to students
and faculty alike on the campus.
tooms for the Student Council, W. S,
A., Y. M. C, A. Y. M. C, A., yno
all the other organizations could be planned so that meeting places could be solved. The cafeteria would provide a place where students could eat without going off the Hill, and a great number of clubs and fraternities would build the building. The recreation features will keep the students on the campus, and there will be no necessity to go down town to play a game of billards. The study rooms will give the men and women a place to go between classes; there are dozens of other favorable features. Continuers Mr. Harris.
Sold 400 Directories To Students on Monday
"Only four hundred student directories were sold Monday to the students," said Marvin Harmon, who has charged of the book for the Student Council. "A number of people have been offered thirty-five cents but thirty-five cents has been necessary for the expense of the book is nearly twice as much as last year, because there are twenty more pages and printing has also gone up. An increase of the dime will only pay out the book provided a thousand are sold."
"In order to insure the publication of such a necessary book, every student should own one. The book is accurate, because the Registrar's office had charge of the copy, making the records from the lists, and also reading the proof, and making note changes during the course of printing."
The Student Directory is on sale at Fraser Check Stand.
As a result of a defective fireplace, fire caused a little damage Tuesday at a student rooming house at 1616 Indiana.
Alpha Delta Pi will give an inform al house dance Saturday night.
SENTIMENTS VOICED ON PROPOSED DRIVE
Ian to Erect University Service Building Meets Enthusiastic Response
Various Ideas Expressed
Movement a Decided Step Forward
The University of Kansas has a great vision. That vision is the erection of a student service building and the beginning of an athletic stadium at a cost of one million dollars.
Everyone on the Hill is enthusiastic concerning the proposed plan to secure a University Service Building and Stadium for the University if the following interviews are an indication of the prevailing attitude:
THE MILLION DOLLAR VISION
"The University Service Building, as I see it," said Prof. W. J. Baumgartner, "should contain a cafeteria, tea room, room for committee meetings of the various school organizations, rooms for student social gatherings, and rooms for alumni and alumni associations. To the alumni the common would be particularly beneficial. This building, I believe, could be built for approximately $200,000, and the other half of the fund should go to
"The Loyalty Movement in the University can now have something definite to the to," continued Professor Blaumgartner. "Professor Melvin has done a great deal in the organizing and enthusiasm he has imparted to members of the University in regard to his position." The movement will have an opportunity to express itself in a definite, material way."
It is a task that will put to the acid test the loyalty movement for putting K. U. first. It will take a million dollars worth of loyalty on the part of every student, faculty member, and alumnus to carry the campaign to a successful close. It will mean the translation of every ounce of passive loyalty to the University into dynamic action.
Prof. Godwin Goldsmith, a member of the Memorial Committee, said that his views of the matter of a student service building were many and complex. "However, there is one thing that stands out clearly, and that is that if the building is a memorial, it should be made as such."
But is must be done. And this is the year to do it. The University has reached that stage where it must either forge ahead with rapidly increasing momentum or remain at a standstill, an institution with a past but without a future.
There are no limits to the possibility of growth if properly stimulated. With the great Southwest for its nourishment the University has opportunity for developing into prominence as the first among the institutions of that territory.
The vision which will carry the University to that goal is now supplied in the million dollar campaign. That is to be the first practical result to come from the loyalty movement. It is a wonderful vision that has been dared by those who love their University and that for which it stands. But the same spirit out of which such a daring vision was born will carry the vision to its realization. From the sacrifices and hard work of these practical dreamers who have launched the campaign, and its supporters, will grow a still bigger and better University.
"This movement seems to be a decided step towards co-operation," said Prof. J. G. Brantet.
"The plan includes both a stadium and a commons. Therefore the trouble over the kind of a memorial should no longer interref"
Glen Baker said of the propose University Service Building. "I am working so hard for the $1,000,000 drive, I haven't time to express my emotions because we are all working for the drive. It just speaks for itself."
Dramatic Club to Choose Cast for Play Next Weel
Trouptouts for the three-act Dramatic Club piny to be given early next semester are set for next Monday and Tuesday, but a selections by the Dramatic Club will mitten as announced at the club meeting Wednesday afternoon is "Mrs. Temple's Telegram," a comedy said Wednesday. The event, intuitably suited for a K. U. production,
The tryouts are open to any regularly enrolled student in the university, whether Dramatic Club member or not, according to Burney Millet of the club. Regular eligibility rates govern the cost of the play.
Seven new members were elected to the Dramatic Club at Wednesday's meeting. They are: Theda Elmore, Julia Fitzgardle, Lucie Ralei, Helen Ruth Gumbiner, Dorothy Brandle, John B. Old, and W. R. Tate.
Competition for parts will begin Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, after the Sousa Band Concert, and will continue Tuesday afternoon, beginning with a musical performance in Trytail will be in Little Theater in the basement of Green Hall, and will consist in reading from the manuscript, selected passages from the play. Judges will be the members of the ex-communite committee of the Dramatic Club.
The play includes nine parts, five men and four women. The parts call for a variety of talent, from character comedy to heavy parts.
Southwestern District Lifts Fuel Restrictions Today
St. Louis, Dec. 11—Fuel conservation restrictions in the southwest region were lifted today, the regional coal committee announced, and regulation of retail stores may be discontinued.
a regular passenger schedules on all railroads will be resumed Monday, B. P. lush, southwest regional railroad director today and he expected.
leaver George L. Kreeck,
Lawrence, Kansas.
Car of oil mined by K. U. minerals
to your city. Will arrive
tomorrow.
K. U. Boys Mine Coal for Lawrence Governor Allen today sent the following message:
Henry J. Allen.
Dean Butler has made arrangements for the street cars to run as usual for the benefit of the benefactor of the concert in Robinson Gymnastium.
LAUNCH PLANS TO RAISE LOYALTY MEMORIAL FUND
Representative Students Meet and Resolve to Unite Efforts to Raise Million Dollar Loyalty Memorial Fund for University
SERVICE BUILDING AND STADIUM
Half-Million to go to University Service Building, and Half-Million Toward Stadium is Plan of Professor Baumgartner
A million dollars for a Loyalty-Memorial Fund to provide a University Service Building and to make a start on an adequate stadium is the plan launched Wednesday by a meeting of students, representing practically all student organizations.
Intimation that $200,000 or $250,000 of this sum already is in sight, was made at the meeting, and the enthusiasm of the students present prompted steps for the immediate raising of the million-dollar fund. This determination was expressed in the following resolution:
Resolved, that representatives of student organizations here assembled favor immediate action to raise a one million dollar Loyalty Memorial Fund for the erection of a University Service Building on the campus and a stadium, to be built section by section in such athletic field.
Resolved further, that the representatives here assembled present the plan to their respective organizations for endorsement.
STADIUM WOULD COST ABOUT HALF MILLION
Blight Decrease in Construction Cost Noted Since Report Last May
Williams Makes Estimates
**COST OF OP OF ATHLETIC STADIUM**
| Structure | Year | Cap | Total |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Yale Bowl | '16 | 60,000 | $448,000 |
| Princeton | '16 | 60,000 | 1,000 |
| New York City | '15 | 7,000 | 147,000 |
| Newark City | '15 | 7,000 | 250,000 |
| College | '16 | 12,500 | 350,000 |
| Syracuse | '07 | 29,000 | 500,000 |
| Iowa State | '07 | 29,000 | 500,000 |
| Harvard | '12 | 5,000 | 32,000 |
| Indiana | '10 | 15,000 | 250,000 |
| Baseball | '10 | 15,000 | 250,000 |
Stadium Similar to That of New York City College Would Cost $850,000
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The cost for erecting an athletics field would be from $300,000 to $500,000, depending on the architectural treatment and the site selected. These figures are contained in the report of Prof. C. C. Williams, head of the department of civil engineering, to the Senate Memorial Committee last May.
The plan proposed of erecting a statue by association is correctly practical, and Professor Williams today.
COSTS SLIGHTLY LESS
"November, 1910, prices" he continued, "indicate a slight decrease in construction costs since my report was made. There has been no material change in labor or steel costs, 2 per cent decrease in steel costs, 3 per cent decrease in stone and sand, and 21 per inch increase in lumber."
Professor Williams' report was, in part, as follows:
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The meeting of two representatives from each organization was called by the Man's Student Council and the Women's Student Government Association, to consider a loyalty memorial for the protection of a student union as A plan for this was presented by Prof. W. J. Baumgartner.
NEED SEEN FOR UNITED PROJECT
Glen Banker, acting president of the Mennonite Student Council provided and assisted Haungerangt to outline the plan.
"While at the Y. M. C. A. convention at Detroit a few weeks ago, Marvin Harness, William Studer, and myself took a short trip to Ann Arbor to visit the University communals." "We discussed the plans as had been made by the different organizations, and while we were discussing them I began to feel the plans would conflict, so we got together and decided to unite our plans and present to the school, through a representative..."
MANY FACILITIES POSSIBLE
"Studer as president of the A. E F, was enthusiastic about the memorial idea that that organization had worked upon. Marvin Harma as a member of the student club was interested in furthering the plans made by the council last Spring, I, as n Y. M. C. A. representative, was interested in planning plans made by the plan. It began to look as though things would be mixed up, so a simple project was made to include all plans.
"This project is that we get together and collect $1,000,000 which we'll give enough for a University Service Building large enough to include a cafeteria, a tea room, several large meeting parlors for student organizations alumi rooms, a large dance hall and some smaller ones, billiard and auction
tion such as is gathered here tonight,
a place where all efforts would be united into some big, worth while plan.
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