GRADUATE SCHOOL NUMBER
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
NUMBER 129.
Graduate School Solves Problems for Nation, Says Dean Blackman
University Is Only School In Kansas Giving A.M. and Ph.D. Work
Specializing Makes Leaders
War Has Shown That Science Runs the World, Dean Believes
"The University of Kansas cannot lift its head above other institutions of the state as a leader of educational life in any more marked way than by the development of a graduate school," said Dean F. W. Blackmar of the Graduate School in talking of the future of the institution.
"A premium put by the state on higher learning, increased facilities, and better equipment for graduate work will mean more time for scientific investigation. There are problems in chemistry, physics, education, bacteriology, zoology, history, economics, language, geology, engineering, anatomy, physiology, medicine, law, and psychology, and other departments which must be solved for the advancement of civilization.
"The institution which solves these problems will be the national leader. A University should never fall short of leadership. When it does it is a University in name only and not a University in spirit and life.
"The University of Kansas has the only graduate school in the State and it ought to be the leader of graduate work in the whole Southwest territory. To a certain extent it has been so in the past. However, the University of Kansas has been forced to grow in so many directions that not sufficient teaching force, money and equipment could be given to the Graduate School to put it in the place where it rightfully belongs.
"It had a slow, normal growth with considerable momentum gained at the out-break of the war, but the demand for graduate students by the federal government was so excessive that it robbed us of more than 75 per cent of the students. In war times everyone who had specialized in one line and could do any one thing well was in demand so that our chemists, physists, advanced engineers, ontologists and were all taken away for service. So many teachers, men and women, were called to the service that the graduate school was nearly depleted of those who were preparing to teach.
"It was demonstrated that science ran the war. It is now observed that science runs all the arts and industries of peace and those who are to become leaders in the world must have not only a general education but must have specialization along a given line."
"However, there has been a rapid return to normal conditions since the war and there is a good prospect of a large graduate school next fall. Specialization and research work in education have received a great impetus on account of the war. The demand for people of superior education directed along specific lines is greater than ever before.
Announcements
The Radio Club will be reorganized at a meeting at Lawrence High School, Friday night at 7:45 o'clock. Involvement of the interested have been invited to attend.
A Senior class meeting will be held Friday at 4:30 o'clock in Room 210, Fraser Hall, Herman C. Hangen, President announces, At the meeting the May Queen will be elected, Mr. Han Kunts all the seniors to be present.
Herbert Barnby visited in Kansas City, Mo. the first of the week.
THURSDAY
A meeting for everybody at 8 o'clock in the Gymnasium. FRIDAY
All-University Convocation 11:30 in Gymnasium.
Another meeting for everybody, 8 o'clock in the Gymnasium.
All of these meetings will be addressed by "Dad" Elliott.
Send The Daily Kansan Home.
110th Engineers Stop But Brief Time Here
With a crowd of five thousand persons looking on and the K. U. Band playing "Boola," the 110th Engineers went through Lawrence last night between 7 and 8 o'clock in two sections. The first section stopped about ten minutes but owing to a freight train being in the way the crowd was unaware of, they returned soldiers. The second through some time later but did not stop on account of the fact that the train was late.
Captain D. S. "Tony" James, former captain of the K. U. football team was on the first section, and several other K. U. men were on the second section including Roy Graham, Clarence Block and Leon McCarty former baseball coach here.
Plain Tales From the Hill
Election Poster—"Harms and Rodkey, running at large." Here, keeper, lock 'em up again.
It's easy to figure out why the troops that passed through Lawrence last night didn't parade. The sign on the cars read, "No Beer, No Parade."
There are difficulties and difficulties in graduate work. Just for instance, students in bacteriology are making certain blood counts on monkeys for the state board of health. And the difficulty is not to make the blood count but to catch the monkey.
HOW BOLSHEVISTS ARE MADE
"Yes, I will vote the Skookum ticket not," said the disgruntled voter, as he painfully got up and tried to brush off the wet paste he had gathered in his fall on one of the搽ogondic posters.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 1, 1919.
He stole bravely forth towards the polls to vote for the other party, and stepped on one of the Hokum tickets. They were *as* painful as the first fall.
Then the voter went down the street waving a red flag in the air and shouting at the top of his voice, "Down with student government; down with the University; down with everything."
A professor in the Graduate School has a solution for an important problem. He says, "We should not cudgel but canjole Cajcom."
SEMINAR: A DEFINITION
A room for study, exclusively for graduate students, where perfect silence reigns all the time.
Also where graduate students meet to plan graduate club meetings, gossip, about the latest grad to fall into the ranks of matrimony, berate the prefs, and sometimes—shhhhh—eat bread and cheese—all while the librarian is hunting up a reference for some hardworking student.
A captain from Camp Funston recently visited a K. U. woman graduate who is teaching a high school near the army camp. And immediately the class had a satisfactory realization for her selecting Whitman's poem, "Oh Pain, My Captain," as the principal of the Memorial Day exercises.
"— and I need about four good assistants, so if you —"
CLEAN POLITICS
"If we let that ticket get in, the pharmacies will run the school."
The Entomology Club was discussing the habits of the trench cootie and the reason for his appearance. Joe Groh of the Graduate School, recently returned from overseas, expressed his opinion.
"I don't know Dooittle and he may be a good man, but I hear he's feeble-minded."
"It will kill K. U. if men like him are elected."
"You should have seen their squirrel print!"
"Huh!" said he, "some of those guys wouldn't take a bath until they were in danger of being carried away by the cooties."
Pardaman Singh, after watching K. U. students danced: "It's all very well, but I'm afraid it wouldn't do for our people."
REMARKABLE REMARKS
How much work have you done on your thesis?
FAMOUS LAST LINES
Seniors will meet in Room 110 Fraser Hall Friday at 4:30 o'clock for the purpose of deciding on a memorial for their class.
WHY THIS NUMBER
For several years it has been the policy of the Daily Kansan to print, at opportune times, special numbers, in which the work of some one school is emphasized. Up to this time there have appeared issues in which the work of the Schools of Engineering, Medicine and Fine Arts have been featured.
At this particular period, it seems particularly appropriate to stress the work of the Graduate School.
This school is growing rapidly in size. Last year the enrolment, including the summer session graduate students, was over three hundred. A.B.s are ceasing to be a mark of distinction. They are taken as a matter of course by all students who are sufficiently interested in higher education to attend the University. Men returning from the Service are realizing more than ever the need of specialized training, beyond that which can be gained in a normal four-year course.
The increased interest in world leadership has awakened an increased interest in the training for leadership through the Graduate School. Scientific investigation and invention demands extensive research.
This issue of the Kansas is published in order to show the many opportunities that the Graduate School offers. Read it carefully. It may reveal an opportunity for which you have long been seeking.
Reforms Needed in College Life Says "Dad" Elliott in Convocatian
The whole system of University campuses of the Middle West," said life, athletic, social and spiritual, must Mr. Elliott, "would be prohibited in be reformed A. J. "Dad" Elliott Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, or any at the all-University convention in of the more vicious large cities of the Robinson Gymnasium this morning. The country. An instance of this is the "Some persons are saving that the 'shimmy.'
"Some persons are saying that the college men and women," said Mr. Elliott, "will not be able to handle the issues that will come up when the issues of this war are settled. I believe that the college men and women are to be the persons to settle the issues of this great war that has cost millions of dollars." In more than a decade, I believe that the college men and women are to be the great leaders in spite of the fact that organized labor has thought differently."
Almost the whole University attended convoitation to hear the first of the five talks by "Dad" Elliott. Helen Weed gave a solo, "The Long, Long Trail," with band accompaniment and the audience singing the chorus. Joe Schwarz made his debut as cheerleader.
"Some of the social practices on the
"Cigarette smoking in another practice that tends to the ruin of the nation through the college people."
"Some of the leaders of today consider the modern college fraternity as one of the greatest dangers to the principles of Christianity. Some of the fraternities have gotten as far away from the principles of their rituals as the German government got from the principles laid down in the New Testament.
"Senator Beveridge once said that all the crookedness he knew about politics he learned while in college, and it is a fact that situations are influenced and men elected merely by the pulling of wires, not voting for the best man with the interests of the university at heart."
Representative Ticket Defeats Snappy Service Candidates
John Wahlstedt Was Only Man to Place Against Representatives and Barely Beat Pendegrast for Council Representative from Engineering School
Beyond The Hill
Hollis Ran High for Council Representative from College and Wells from Engineering School—No Competition for School Offices
The Representative Ticket placed all of their candidates in office in the election Wednesday with one exception, losing one candidate for representative on the Student Council from the Engineering School. The Representative Ticket carried best in the College.
Montieth Got Presidency Through The College Vote
John Monteith won over Warren Blazier for president of the Council by a majority of 83 votes, John Kinkel over Ferdinand Steuke for vice-president by 177 votes, Glenn Banker over Herbert Cox for secretary-treasurer by 199 votes, and Joe Schwarz beat Decil Ritter 118 votes for cheerleader. Marvin Harms and Ralph Rodkey had no competition for the Student Interest Committee.
Post office inspectors at New York reported Wednesday the discovery of seventeen infernal machines put in the mail and addressed to public officials. All were similar to the bomb sent to former Senator Hardwick of Ohio, who was killed blew off the hands of a negro man and injured Mrs. Hardwick.
Written for students who are too bury or too lazy to read a paper from outside the campus.
The 110th Engineers returned to Kansas Wednesday and encountered a barrage of welcome laid from fifty thousand widely cheering people in Kansas City, Kan.
Italy was given a new loan of 50 million dollars today by the treasury department to cover a number of obligations incurred by Italy in the war. This brought Italy's total borrowings from the United States, to $1,571,500,-000.
Camp Funston's Memorial, dedicated to the soldiers mobilized at that cantonment, will be finished by the time the 89th arrives from France for demobilization.
It's a Wise Student That Stays For The Last Course
John Wahlsted nosed Hugh Penderegrast out for the Student Council in the Engineering School by 13 votes, and was the only man to place against the Representative Ticket. Williams ran high in his school with 160 votes. Homer Eagles got the presidency of the Engineering School without competition, Harold Beiser the vice-presidency and Joe LaMer the secretary-treasurer.
Floyd Hockenhull, Fred Leach, Edgar Hollis, Basil Church, Ernest Kugler, and Philip Dodderidge, beat the Independent candidates out easily in the College for representatives on the Council, Hollis carrying the highest vote. There was no competition for College officers.
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Vice-Chairman Says Matter is Becoming Complicated With Numerous Plans
Discussion On Memorial By Committee May Be Indefinitely Delayed
The meeting of the memorial committee, scheduled for Wednesday night, was postponed because an insufficient number of student members were present. No Student Council men were able to attend the meeting and only a few W. S. G. A. members appeared.
"It will be prehabs six months before a decision is reached," said G. C. Shaad, vice-chairman of the committee, this morning. "The matter is becoming more complicated with every meeting and we intend to give all the plans careful consideration before taking definite action. At first only a few types of memorial were suggested, but now there is a large number to be considered."
Sachems Vote to Support Student Union Building
The Sachems, senior men's society, by a unanimous vote of those present at the meeting Wednesday night, voted to support a student union building for a permanent memorial for the University. This conclusion was reached after considering the memorial plans in relation to their value to the University and fitness as a memorial.
"The Sachem Society not only is going to support a student union building but is going to do its utmost to push the plan," said Robert Albach, president of Sachema this morning. "It was not until due consideration can be given each memorial plan that the society decided to favor one plan."
"A student union building would be used nine months of the year where a stadium would be used not more than from ten to twenty days a year by the majority of students," said Dutch Uhrlaub, a Sachem and formalist with what "What is needed at the University is to develop student spirit. A student union building would do much to create the old-time peep."
Harry Harlan, '17, is in Lawrence visiting the School of Law and attending the Elliott lectures. Mr. Harlan is secretary of a Y. M. C. A. in Kansas City, Mo.