UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 98.
VOLUME XVI.
Dean Walker Urges R.O.T.C. Unit For K.U. In Talk To Engineers
Three Reasons Advanced for Early Action on Part of University
Army Lacks Trained Men
"By getting started with the work this year," he said, "three important advantages will be gained: First, the men who were in the S.A.T.C. will obtain credit for a full year's work. Second, Juniors who have returned to the University from other military service will obtain credit for the first two years' work and will be eligible for a commission at the end of their military course. Third, officers are now being assigned to R.O.T. units and the University will be better able to obtain the exact officers wanted."
Theoretical Classes Would Earn Credits, as do Other College Courses
Before a meeting of all members of the School of Engineering in Marvin Hall today, Dean P. F. Walker talked over plans for the school and presented briefly the matter of establishing an R.O.T.C. unit at the University of Kansas. This was the first appearance of Dean Walker before a general meeting of engineering students since his return from the army.
Dean Walker emphasised that it was not his idea to influence the establishment of an R.O.T.C. at K.U., but to point out reasons why the question should be taken up now, if at all.
The plans of the War Department, Dean Walker said require only a few hours additional time from the men each week. The men of the S.A.T.C. or other military service will not be required to take military drill for the remainder of the present school. The theoretical work of O.T.A. was done at the regular school work of the student, but full credit will be given toward a degree.
Dean Walker spoke of the lack of properly trained officers in the war.
"I can tell you the situation in my own regiment, the 219th Engineers," he said. I had but five captains in stead of fifteen one first lieutenant stead of fifteen; one first lieutenant instead of nineteen; and twenty-two second lieutenants instead of twelve.
"I assume you men of the School of Engineering in large numbers are disposed to favor the proposition and are ready to give what little additional time will be necessary in order to put your ideas into effect, and distinctive capacity in case there is need for formation of a large army in the years to come.
Dean Walker said that he favors weekly meetings for the entire School of Engineering, to be held at 4:30 o'clock, when topics of interest can be discussed. The vote of the men for such a plan was unanimous.
Signal Corps, Motor Transports, Infantry, Ordnance, Coast Artillery, and Engineers Corps, are some of the units which may be established at the University, said Dean Walker. By the end of present, although little effort was made to explain in detail exactly what would be required in each unit.
Musical Comedy Planned For K. U, Follies, April 9
The annual K.U. Follies, which will be given April 9, in Robinson Gymnasium, will be a musical comedy this year, instead of the usual series of vauduie acts. A number of the latest song hits have been chosen by Mabel McNaughton, who directing the Follies, and a musical comedy is being written around these choruses. Ed Patton, author of "Oh, Shoot," the prize senior play, is assisting with the libretto.
Three choruses of University women have already been chosen and announced, and are holding regular practices. Dorothy Cole, instructor in the department of physical education, is training the choruses.
The Follies are under the direction of the W.S.G.A. this year, and the admission will be 35 cents. The Y.W.C.A. and W.S.G.A. take alternate years conducting the financial end of the Follies.
The name and leads of the musica comedy will be announced immediately after the spring vacation.
Theodore Rocklund Dies of Disease in France
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18, 1919.
Word was received Wednesday of the death from disease of Theodore Rockland in France.
Mr. Rocklund was a taxidermist in Dyche Museum from 1903 until last June when he enlisted and secured leave of absence from the University. When the armistice was signed he was serving in the 88th division with a machine gun company.
Written for students who are too busy or too lazy to read a paper from outside the campus.
Five Minutes in the Wide. Wide World
Fire Damaged The federal prison at Leavenworth to the extent of $40,000. Wednesday. The prison fiire department succeeded in saving many buildings. The prisoners maintained order throughout the confusion. The fire was of incendiary origin, according to taking a picture of part of a partition between the stone mill and steel shop had been saturated with gasoline.
Because The Present heads of the Food Administration and the United States Grain Corporation desire to return to private life as soon as possible, it is believed that President Wilson will appoint the Department of Agriculture to carry out the wheat law guarantee for the 1919 crop.
The Jurors For the I.W.W. trial at Wichita were chosen Wednesday and the first question asked them was, "Are you a member of the Nonpartisan League?" No juror was accepted who was in any way connected with the league.
The Kansas State Senate has passed a bill to take from the public utilities commission authority it may have to regulate the business of utilities of cities in the state. The bill abolishes the commission as far as any regulatory powers it might have over the utilities in cities, it is said.
The Victory Liberty Loan drive will start Monday, August 21, and will be held at the Carson Library.
The U.S.S. George Washington on which President Wilson returned to France, was delayed in a heavy storm Wednesday, and is not expected to reach Brest until 8 o'clock Thursday night.
When The Time for signing the peace treaty arrives it is understood that Germany's representatives will be housed in one of the palaces at Versailles and will not be permitted to enter Paris as the French government does not care to undertake the protection of Germans in Paris.
Save Your Old Clothes is a Red Cross slogan recently adopted. A national campaign to collect 10,000 tons of old clothes for war sufferers in Europe will be opened in this country March 24 and will last until April 1. Herbert Hoover made every man in Europe observe Easter by saving his cast-off clothing for the men, women and children in the war worn countries.
Engineers Invade Steps of Enemy's Stronghold
Following the meeting in Marvin Hall for the members of the School of Engineering, those students who have 10:30 classes in Blake Hall held a mass meeting on the steps and declared a holiday. Their first move was to make for the home of their enemies, the Laws. They put a Ford car on the approach to Green Hall and then had a picture taken of the group standing on the steps. Following this they held a pow-wow on the east side of Fraser and had their pictures taken with Chancellor Strong.
Meeting of the Blackfriars has been indefinitely postponed.
Quill Club will meet Thursday at 8
o'clock in the Fraser Hall rest room.
Announcements
Sociology Club will meet in Fraser Rest Room Thursday evening at 7 o'clock Julia Kennedy, c19, will tell of her experiences at the Hull House.
Zoology Club will meet this week
Stanford Ousts 43 Freshmen
Stanford University has suspended,
until the beginning of the fall term
next October, forty-three men of the
freshmen class who appeared in woman's garb in a Washington's birthday parade.
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Entire Owl Fraternity Called on the Carpet
Trouble Due to Misunderstanding, Says Chancellor—Explanations at Meeting
The members of the Owl fraternity were called before a Disciplinary Committee at the Owl lector's office yesterday with Councilor Frank Strong presiding as a hearing was had on the Owl's fate to hand in a budget on their dance. "Uncle Jimmy" Green sat in the meeting and talked with the men after the hearing was over.
Dean Patterson explained to the Owls that although they were a fraternity they were to be considered as any other organization putting on a dance as they had charged a fixed price. The men will be given until the time the Senate met tonight to hand in their budget and if it is not at that time it is almost certain that they will be suspended or expelled from the university. They would have suspended at the Senate meeting Tuesday night but not all of the men in the fraternity had had a hearing and it is impossible to put a man out of school without a hearing, according to the Senate.
"I think all of this trouble has been caused by the misunderstanding existing between the Senate and the students of the University rules and their interpretation. The Senate wants the co-operation of the student body and the Owls come under the ruling which we have to enforce. We hope that you men see our position and that you will hand in your budget and the matter will be dropped," said Chancellor Strong to the Owls in the meeting.
The Owls have not handed in their budget up to the time the Kansen went to press and they will give out no in. They do not course they intend to take in the matter.
Number of K.U. Portias Growing Says Law Dean
Uncle Jimmy Sees Opportunity for Women in Legal Profession
"Women should study law.
Uncle Jimmy, dean of the School of Law said so when interviewed as to his attitude toward woman lawyers and as to the future for women in the profession.
"I've known quite a few women who studied law," continued Uncle Jimmy. "Many of them did not practice. Some didn't have the rights to protect their own rights and property."
Others married after they finished their law course. Still others marry men who are lawyers and have gone into partnership with their husbands.
The cast of Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh will be entertained by the manager with a dinner at Bricken's tonight.
"As far as the general educational value of a law course to a woman is concerned, "there is none broader. It disciplines its students to think accurately and quickly. It insures calm reasoning of factors. It necessitates alertness, also a good sense of humor. It must not loose his head even if the opponent's fire gets scorching. A lost head means a lost case to a lawyer.
"It is all right for a lawyer to backfire his opponent in the court room but he must smooth down the ruffles immediately after the trial if he wishes to stand well in his profession. All three things a woman learns to do involves the experience of obsession and benefit she gets from the broad reading and excellent diction.
"This training, together with her command of English, fits her for almost any position her inclinations may suggest. Should she not wish to practice in court her full knowledge as to the forms and procedures, as well as the technical terms to be used makes her absolutely efficient and capable as a lawyer's clerk or a court stenographer."
"Besides," said Dean Green, "difficulties are not taken into courts as they formerly were. Today the effort is all directed toward avoiding litigation. Large corporations hire lawyers to keep them out of trouble and a woman lawyer can do office work as well as a man.
"The women who have come over here have been good students and it is not because they work harder. In fact, they are often better than the boys."
University Women Ask
For New K. U. Buildings
The need and importance of a building for home economics, a cafeteria, a student hospital, musical schools and balls of residence were emphasized by the women who conferred with the Ways and Means Committee of the House and Senate Tuesday night and Wednesday morning at Topeka.
The women from the University of Kansas who urged that the state provide better buildings were Miss Alberta Corbin, Miss Alice Winston, Mrs. Caroline Spangler, Miss Elizabeth Meguain, Miss Sarah Laird, and Miss Elsie Neuwander.
Various other schools were represented. Dean Mary P. Van Gulie of Manhattan, and Dean Mary Whitney of Emporia were present.
"The women of the different schools are co-operating to further the interests of women students of the state and at the meeting in Topeka the needs of one special school were not emphasized, but the good of the whole state was considered," said Miss Corbin.
The delegates spoke especially for the one-tenth mill tax for buildings and made a plea in behalf of the needs of the students. They asked a permanent income for buildings.
Navy Thanks University for Use of Instrument
Field Binocular and a Sextant
Lent for War Use
Are Returned
A field binocular and a sextant lent to the navy about a year ago by the department of civil engineering, has just been returned, with the following letter of thanks from Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of navy:
*1. There is being returned to you by registered mail the articles received from you in response to the navy's call.*
"2. An engraved certificate evidencing the participation of these articles in the war, is now being prepared and the war, is awarded to you at a subsequent date."
"3. It is hoped that any evidence of wear or damage will be compensated for by the fact that a great service has been performed and that historic interest has been added to the articles returned."
Mrs. Thayer Offers Prize for Architects
Award of $50 Will Be Made for Best Work in
Design
A fifty dollar prize, to be known as the Thayer Prize in Architectural Design, has been presented to the department of architectural engineering by Mrs. W. B. Thayer of Kansas City, who gave the William B. Thayer Memorial Art Collection to the University. Mrs. Thayer has been visiting the department of architectural engineering the last several days.
The prize will be awarded to an architectural student for excellence in design and probably will be based on the best design submitted to the Beaux-Arts Institute in the project. The award will be a cure an endowment which will insure the permanence of the prize. The first award will be made this spring.
Cecil Embry, '19, of Wichita has returned from service and enrolled in the School of Law for the third quarter. Embry was discharged from the paymaster's department of the Texas State University, Texas. Previous to this he was in the ordance department at Camp Hancock, Georgia.
Cecil Embry Back for Law
K. S. A. C. Roughneck Day
The Ides of March, or annual "Roughneck Day," is to be ceebrated by students of Kansas State Agricultural University. A part of the festivity is for students to appear in the "roughest" costumes and makeups possible. This will be the fourth annual celebration.
K. S. A. C. Roughneck Day
Is Time to Sign Pavroll
Is Time to Sign Payroll
The regular faculty and employees payroll must be signed by March 19 at the very end of the official offer, according to King Klooz; chief clerk of the University. It is urged that this be given attention at once or employees will suffer a delay in receiving their pay.
Protection of University Honor Demands Audit, Says Chancellor
Senate Absolutely Obligated to Make Student Organizations Responsible, Doctor Strong Declares at Convocation
Fraser Crowded to Hear Square-Deal Speech
It is reported that two Pi Phi and three Kappa have dates now for the Junior Prom for next year. Twenty-four caret foresight, what?
A Senator in the department of entomology has a book he is going to present to the auditor of K.U. student accounts entitled, "The Story of the Goat." He is considering having George O. Foster's name engraved in gold on the cover.
Leland Stanford students were suspended from the University for appearing on the streets in woman's apparel. "The disciplinary committee wants the men here to appear in skirts I guess and are in direct opposition to the California school," said an Owl today.
"Uncle Jimmy" does not stand in as high with the Senate as some men on the Hill but he says, "When the Senate and faculty get into trouble with the students they call on me to get them out. Yes, and I've been before disciplinary committees when I was a student and I have had experience with K.U.'s 'bad boys' in the past."
"What's the matter with Marshall Haddock tonight," said a Pi Phi at Brick's last night. "He looks so sober."
At the remark several cluckled as Haddock was in the next booth and the Pi Phi corrected, "I meant solemn, not sober."
The Senate rule upon this Hill,
And since they're happy in the thought,
K. U. has done lots of things
'Tis cruel to bring them to.
K. U. has done lots of things (Some that she hadn't orter)
Plain Tales From the Hill
This year its something quite extreme
She dragged in a third quarter.
The Scrim and Jazz have come and gone
Head of University in Seeking to Wipe Out Misunderstandings, Advocates Chapel Assemblies in School Hours
"The protection and reputation of the University, and of the student body itself, requires audit of student organizations," said Chancellor Frank Strong at the Convocation in Fraser Hall at 11:30 today. A square deal for students and faculty and by students and faculty was the sentiment expressed by the Chancellor.
And hard times are beginning,
Next week will usher in exams,
Then Profs will have their inning
The question oft arises,
As the Law leans on his cane,
Is the weakness in his lower limbs,
Or is it in his brain?
About 1500 students filled the chapel and all standing room and hallways leading to the chapel. Rock Chalk and engineer and law yells started before the crowd had gathered in the chapel, and the convocation closed by singing "The Crimson and Blue."
F. T. Bonebrake Returns
From Service in France
Frederick T. Bonehake of Topeka enrolled this week in mechanical engineering. Bonehake, who left the University in 1917, was with the 110th Engineers in France and in the front line trenches in the fighting in the Argonne Forest. He was severely gassed and for several months was in a hospital because of pneumonia which followed.
Bonebrake has enrolled in only a few hours work now but will take up the full junior schedule next quarter.
More German Helmets Arrive
Volla Engle, Dorothy Flint, and Dorothy Engel go to Kansas City tonight to see the Follies.
more Germa' helmets Arrive
Tw German helmets were worn in Europe by Omega house from Lieut. Walter "Dutch" Weissenborn, formerly a student in the College, who is now in the army of occupation somewhere in Germany.
"I like to hold convocations in the Chapel rather than in the gymnasium, as it brings me much closer to the student body," said Chancellor Strong. "In old times when we had convocations we held them during school hours and I hope it may be so arranged that it will be able to do the same thing again.
"The trouble in the University now is a munderdigest between the governing body of the University or the Senate and the student body. Full publicity and the reason for certain actions of the Senate has not succeed. ed in reaching the students.
AUDITS BEGAN TEN YEARS AGO
"In a university there should be two fundamentals in order to make it a real school. The first is discipline, and the second is control of all organizations connected with the university. "Discipline in any organization is absolutely necessary in order to have any respect for the organization. But there must be a reasonable amount and everybody must have a square deal.
"This problem of auditing started ten years ago and was given full publicity at the time. But at that time the student body was not as fluctuating as it is at the present time. The student body started the first year with practically the same number of students it graduated. In 1913 almost 1000 students entered and in 1917 the graduating class amounted to only 450.
ATTITUDE SHOULD BE FRIFNDLY
"The University must have control over student organizations, both for the students' protection and our's. The attitude of the University towards the student organizations is one of sincere friendship and the students should feel likewise towards the University. If the students support the governing body the Senate will support the students and the ultimate end will be a real University, one of which everyone will be proud. All the world now requires sanity, self-control and unselfishness, and we as a University must practice these same ideas in our University life.
"I wouldn't have a rule in the University unless compelled, and I wish we could get along without them, but they are necessary. Rules come largely from the student-body and many rules that are in force are not written in books.
SENATE IS RESPONSIBLE
"The Senate must observe all rules under the laws and constitution of the University of Kansas, the responsibility of all enforcements of rules rests on the Senate. The Senate cannot dodge these rules as they are checked by the Board of Administration.
"Up to 1913 the governing board consisted of a Board of Regents, of which the Chancellor was president. In that year the Board of Regents was displaced by the Board of Administration. This board did not specify the powers and duties of the Chancellor and faculty, but made and adopted the constitution of the University of Kansas.
NEW BOARD IN 1915
"In 1915 a new Board of Admini-
tration came into office and defined
the power and responsibility of the
Chancellor and of the Faculty. Again in
1917 another board came in and
re-defined the power of the Chancellor
but did not change the internal power
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