UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
W.S.G.A. Will Meet With Men's Council To Fix Point System
Value of Student Activities at University to be Estimated in Points
There will be a joint meeting of committees from the W. S. G. A, and the Men's Student Council at 7 o'clock tonight for the purpose of work out a point system for men and women students. The purpose of the system is to have a uniform method of estimating the value of activities participated in by students.
As it has been, the two organizations have used systems they have worked out separately, and they are *knew* not uniform. This has mothen some difficulty in checking up cropn
Alight is taking part as different to Phil. It will be the two or Thur'ations. At the request of Professor Thurnau, chairman of the eligibility committee, the uniform system will be worked out.
"This is a matter for the students themselves to work out," said Professor, Thurnau, "as they alone can estimate the time taken by the different activities."
activities.
The committee appointed from the W. S. G. A has already revised its old plan by which senior students will be allowed fifty points, the junior forty points, the sophomores thirty points, and the freshmen twenty points. A value of a certain number of points is given to each activity, and the total number of points is not allowed to exceed the amount set by the committee. The purpose of the system is to regulate the amount of activities participated in by any one student.
K. U. Science to Girls in East Indian College
Miss Roxanna oldroy, B.A. '04, M.A., '09, of Wichita, talked to Kappa Phi, a Methodist sorority, Wednesday night on the Isabel Tholurn College at Lucknow, India, where Miss Oldroy was a teacher several years.
"The Indian girls at Thoburn College received K. U. science," said Miss Oldroyd, "for I was both biological and physiological teacher and all the science I know, I learned on the Hill. Indian girls are very bright and quick in scientific studies."
The Kansas Wants Reporter a Senate Meetings; Seniors Longer Commencement
Senate Will Consider Student Petitions Next
Among the things the students want are regular convocations, as shown by the action of the Senior class in mass meeting. Their petition is signed by a majority of the class. Hoping that the University Senate will agree to a three-day Commencement this year, the members of this year's graduating class are asking that the program be made longer than last year.
The petitions, which students have presented will be brought before the University Senate at the regular meeting March 4. The last two meetings have been extra sessions to discuss the R, O, T, C., and no time was given to bring up the pending petitions.
A petition from the University Daily Kansan asks that it be allowed a representative to sit at the Senate meeting in order that the actions of that body may be accurately given to the students through the paper.
Asking that they be given representation in the Student Interests Committee, the Men's Student Council petitioned for one member on the committee. Agitation for equal representation has come up since this petition was presented.
Engineers Attend Show
Faculty members and students of the School of Engineering who plan to attend the Auto and Tractor Shows in Kansas City Friday include: Dean G. C. Shand, Prof. A. H. Slusso, Prof. R. G. Grider, Prof. G. H. Joe, Hoe R. L. Grider, Prof. W. Baker, Thorpe E. Wright, e21, George A. Malkum, e21, Lloyd W. Baker, e21, Kenneth Craig, e21, and C. Alvin Williams, e20.
Mu Phi Epison had a dinner and a mock wedding Wednesday night.
Miss Spinney Will Present Tragedy "Hamlet" Tonight
Miss Dorothea Spinney will present the tragedy "Hamlet," Thursday evening, February 27, at 8:15 o'clock, at the Unitarian Church. The last time she presented this play was at Stockbridge, Mass., and it was received with great enthusiasm.
Miss Spinney gives the entire play in her reading, and endeaves to give it in as natural a manner as possible and not as a declaration. She uses no especial stage setting but weared her role by wearing a spearead drama. The play as she reads it lasts about an hour and a half.
Five Minutes in the Wide, Wide World
NUMBER 88.
Written for students who are too busy or too
bad to read a paper from outside, the campus.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 27 1910
Conscientious Objectors Have returned about $20,000 of their pay as soldiers to the War Department, the Friends' Society, Red Cross and Y.M.C. They object to everything about soldiering, even the pay.
The Five Thousand sentences imposed on men in the army since the war began will be reviewed by a special board under Brig. Gen. Samuel T. Anell, Major General Crowder, judge advocate general, told a Senate committee. He said that 1,200 men sentenced to long terms at Leavenworth had been honorably restored to duty in the last year.
Government Minimum Price on hogs now waits on President Wilson's action toward embargoes affecting neutrals and other countries. The Food Administration will announce its hog price policy after the President's decision.
President Wilson Has recommended to Congress legislation placing the licensing and regulating of aerial navigation under the Department of Commerce.
Establishment of a motor truck mail route from Enid to Pawhuska, Oklaho, the towns of Breckenridge, Billings, Red Rock, Ralston and Gray Horse to be instituted by the Post Office Department is announced as a possibility in the near future.
Premier Clemenceau is able to be out again. He left his home for the first time Wedne lag.
The Kansas City Railways Company have announced an increase in pay for the trainmen of five cents an hour, and a discontinuance of the strike bonus, effective March 1.
All attendance figures were broken at the National Tractor Show Wednesday. Total attendance for the day was estimated close to 25,000. There has been no decrease in purchasing.
Skirmish between the Germans and the Poles was continued Wednesday. Some fighting was witnessed by Col. W. R. Grove of the United States Food Mission who declares that the Germans began the attack.
Roosevelt Day will be observed as a holiday on the first Monday of August each year. This was provided in the Constitution to commemorate the Fourth New, Mexico Legislature.
The Ports of Libau and Windau n Courland on the Baltic Sea, which were taken by the Bolshevik January 31, have been recaptured.
The Victoria Liberty Loan Bill was passed February 26 with only three
FIRE DEPARTMENT 101-04 The Lawrence Fire Department came racing through the campus this morning, many students thought the Engineering Building was on fire. But Chief Reisch said they were only holding a little drill on "getting there" in the least possible time.
Moore on Architect's Book Earl M. Moore, e19 was editor manager of the Architectural Year the architectural year of the Architectural Society last Thursday. Work is progressing on the publication and a satisfactory amount of outside advertising is being obtained, according to Professor Goldsmith.
Aerial Mail Service between Paris and other important French cities will be inaugurated March 1 by the director of Civilian Aeronautics.
Moore on Architect's Book
Fire Department Trys Out
Assistant Gym Instructor Back
Bernard "Bus" Jensen, I19, has retumed to school and enrolled in the School of Law, after receiving his discharge from the Navy Ensign
Mr. jensen was assistant instructor in gymnasium at the University last year.
University Constitution Prohibits Final Power To Joint Committee
But Faculty and Students Wil Have Power of Other Senate Committees — Dr. Strong
"The committee of students and faculty which will be recommended to the Senate cannot have final powers according to the constitution of the University," said Chancellor Frank Strong today. "The Board of Administration holds the Senate responsible for the government of the University. The Senate cannot turn over any of this power to a committee. It has never done it for any of its own committees and will hardly make an exception of this joint committee of students and faculty."
"The power of this committee cannot be final according to the University constitution," said Lucene Spencer, president of the Woman's Student Government Association. "The students should not be unreasonable and go after something they can never get. As to the election of the members of this committee from the school at large, the councils are supposed to be represented by them, not it is the fault of the students themselves. Representatives from the councils ought to be representatives from the students at large."
"The five representatives from the councils are virtually from the school it large since the councils are representative bodies," said Carol Martin, secretary of the senior class.
George O. Foster Believes Deficit Owing to Fewer Students and Impaired Expenses
War Had Much to do With Loss on Athletics
and Increased Expenses
Lack of student enthusiasm is not the only reason for the large deficit according to Register George O; Foster. The fact of the last two years being war years, with a corresponding lack of men, and increased expenses, both of which contributed largely to this result.
The deficit for the last two years, due largely to the curtailment of football receipts, and to the increased losses on the basketball games, which are ordinarily carried by football profits.
"This year cannot be taken as a criterion," Mr. Foster said. "This year, owing to the S. A. T. C., and influenza epidemic, no student enterprise tickets were sold. This generally brings in from $2,000 to $5,000 and eight per cent of this goes to the Men's Athletic Association."
The sale of student enterprise tickets in 1916-17 amounted to nearly $3,300. In 1917-18 the same sale amounted to $1,340. There were no student enterprise tickets sold this year, owing to uncertainty of games.
The gross receipts of the Nebraska football game here in the fall of 1917 amounted to more than $10,000. The Aggie game in the early part of the season brought in nearly $1,200. The gross receipts of the Aggie game here last Thanksgiving, the big game of the season, were $1,141.65.
The basketball games here have been poorly attended, the two Missouri games which were played here this year bring in only $203. Reports from Columbia are that at the two games that K. U. played there last week, receipts amounted to more than $600.
The Young Ladies Auxiliary of the Episcopal church will give a party, Friday night. February 28, in the chapel, for students and young people of Lawrence.
The meeting of the Woman's Forum, which was to be held this afternoon, has been postponed until next Wednesday on account of the lecture which is to be given by Edmund France Cooke.
The Chemistry Club will meet Friday night at 8 o'clock in the chemistry room. Dr. H. P. Cady will lecture on "Liquid Air and Recent Experiments." Students interested are invited to attend.
Announcements
Owls will meet Thursday evening at 9 o'clock at Sigma Chi house.
The Sociology Club will meet tonight at 7 q'clock in the rest room in Fraser Hall.
Katherine Duffield Attended Conferences At Chicago Last Week
Esther Moore and Lillian Cottrell Represented University at Convention
Miss Katherine Duffield returned Wednesday from New York and Chicago where she has been doing special work for the Y. W. C. A. She was in New York, January 21 to February 12 as a special worker in the Student Department of the National Board. Her work was intimately concerned with vocational work for women students.
The plan had been for the National Board, in connection with the twelve vocational bureaus, to get out information which was to be distributed among the 700 colleges with which the association works in this country. Little information was a available from these bureaus because of the time which resulted when the bureaus were taken over by the government. Plans had to be changed because this information was not forthcoming.
"We got people recognized as authorities in their profession to write short folders on the standard professions for women." Miss Duffield said. The original list included medicine, nursing, teaching law, agriculture, church work in this country, foreign missionary work, business, journalism and social service. Among the people obtained to write these folders are: Mrs. Edith Shatto King, head of the Social Workers' Exchange of New York; Prof. Laura Wilde of Mt. Holykoe; Dr. Ellen C. Potter, Miss Dorothy Straus, and Miss Eliza Butler of New York; and Prof. Sophie Chandler Hart of Wellesley College.
The pamphlets will be distributed to 700 colleges through local associations. With these pamphlets there will be another folder giving a list of all occupational bureaus in this country.
While in Chicago Miss Duffield attended two Y. W. C. A. conferences. The first, the Staff conference, was attended by the Student Committee of the National Board, and all field and local secretaries. The purpose of this conference was to formulate guidelines for Y. W. C. A. help students to meet changed conditions in the student world at this time.
The purpose of the student conference, which met February 20 to February 23, was to find out what the students themselves considered the essentials in the new world merging out of the war and how these essentials could be established. Every afternoon during the conference, by the students for the discussion of these two questions, Eather Moore of the University of Kansas led one of these meetings.
Two summaries were presented in one of the final meetings of the conference, the summary of the discussions of the students and a summary of the decisions reached by the faculty and the National Student Staff. Copies of both summaries will be sent out to every local campus and to the president of the National Pan-Hellenic.
The representatives from the University of Kansas were Esther Moore and Lillian Cottrell. Forty-three states were represented. There were two representatives from France and one from Canada.
Four Hundred at Greek Smoker
About 400 Greeks attended the annual Pan-Hellenic Smoker Wednes day night in F. A. U. Hall. Several members of the faculty attended
The first stunt, by Phi Gamma Delta, was a burlesque scene of the Eldridge House. Beta Theta Pim named its act the "Passing Show." Phi Kappa Pim presented, "Seeing Lawrence." Kappa Sigma presented a 2-act farce and Sigma Alpha Episa a meeting of the fraternity "Omega Omega." The members of the Pan-Hellenic Smoken Committee are Kappa Sigma, chairman, Elbert Smith and Fred Stringfellow; Sigma Nu, Merl Clift and Marvin Harmas; Alpha Tau Omega, Phillip Dall
Col. P. F. Walker arrived in Lawrence Wednesday evening, having just received his discharge at Camp Dodge. Colonel Walker will resume his position as Dean of the School of Engineering.
Cady Will Lecture
To Graduate Club
The Graduate Club will meet at o'clock Friday evening February 28 1919, in Room 305 Chemistry Building. Doctor Cady, acting head of the Chemistry department will lecture on and give a demonstration of liquid air. The club has extended an invitation to the student body to attend the demonstration who would find the demonstration both interesting and instructive.
The meeting is one of a series of meetings of instruction and entertainment being conducted by the club. This will be the first scientific lecture of the series, others will follow. Miss Johnson's program committee, is planning more meetings of this nature and expect to invite the student body to them.
Plain Tales From the Hill
The solitary engineers are no longer hooted as "the peopleeless engineers" every time they pass Green Hall now.
The Phi Gam freshmen are no longer seen at the library although the Kappas attend regularly.
Although sorority calls have been made for years some of the first year Greeks still have the habit of asking, "Is this your first year on the Hill?"
"I is the T. N. E. a social fraternity?" asked May B. Good.
"Well, not exactly, but they do get real sociable at times," replied U. R. Fickle.
Two freshmen were driving by the Sig Alpha house when one asked, "What is that, a country club?"
"No, Hamilton uses that house for his training table. All of the athletes I have met say they live there," the second replied.
Jean Carter was sitting between two young women in a class room. A book slid from the desk of one of the young women. He picked it up, it was "The Republic of Plato." He had hard eyes and young voice when he dropped a book. He picked it up, it was "Feeling the Family."
"It takes all kinds of people to make a world" he philosophied.
Several years ago a class in bacteriology selected the south platform on the roof of Fraser Hall for extensive experiments, but the birds interfered with the work to such an extent that a scare crow was placed upon the platform. The experiments are now forgotten but the scare crow remains, and though crippled and broken, the scare crow is slowing by but never catching up with the speed of its rival the anemometer on the north platform.
Missionary Spoke in Fraser
MISSIONARY Spoke in Fraser
Roxanna Oldroyd, honorary mem
ber of Kappa Phi, Methodist women'
club spoke last night at Fraser Hal-
on "The Sister College Movement."
Miss Oldroy is a graduate of the U
iversity and has been a missionary in
Lucknow, India, at the Isabel/Thor-
burn college. In her talk she dis-
cussed the role of the woman
of India and their relation to other
schools and colleges.
Theta Sigma Phi Initiates
Entomologists Wanted
Theta Sigma Phi Initiates
Theta Sigma Phi, honorary journalism sorority, held initiation for Hazel Ernst and Lucile McNaughton, both graduate students, at Miss Corbin's rooms in Fraser Hall, Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock. A social hour was held after the initiation services.
Requests for three entomologists both men and women, to fill positions paying salaries from $1,200 to $1,700, have come in to the entomology department. One request came from the University of Pennsylvania, one from Manhattan and one for a woman from the Health Laboratory inington. The department is up for three positions.
hington. The department is unable to meet these demands.
Senior Poem Try-out
Lewis Potuook, chairman of the senior invitation committee has received three poems for approval. "If there is any one on the Hill who thinks he can write poetry," he said, "let him write a poem and give it to the committee of the committee. The best one will be used on the senior invitations."
The seniors this year wish to have a poem written by a student on the Hill, preferably a senior. In former years the poem has been written by some member of the faculty or some one who is not a student on the Hill.
$100,000 Item In Bill For K. U. Power Plant To Be Reported Today
Total of Items in General Bills Only Slightly Larger Than Two Years Ago
An appropriation of $100,000 for the rebuilding and equipment of the power plant and $1,000 for the merchant's short course are new features for K. U. in the terms of the general bill approved by the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee and to be reported today in the form of a committee bill. The total amount allowed the University of Kansas is $1,744,200 as compared to $1,524,000 two years ago.
The larger portion of the increase is for salaries and maintenance expense. Only the building that is absolutely essential will be allowed on account of the high cost of material and labor. K. U. is to be allowed $2,230 for repairs, permanent improvements, and the completion of the third floor of the Administration building.
The grand total to be allowed to the state educational institutions is $4,997,920, an increase of $191,240 over two years ago. K. U. is to have the largest appropriation with K. S. C. second with a budget of $169,060, 250. The agriculture college will have a new $10,000 engineering building.
In view of the fact that the senate has passed all appropriation bills as recommended by the ways and means committee so far, it is probable that this budget bill will pass without any decided changes.
The committee has visited the University several times during the past few weeks in order to get information as to appropriation needs. The amounts agreed upon by this committee are below the requests made by those in position to know, and the auditor is responsible for the auditor. The University request was for $2,691,066, and the auditor's estimate was for $1,955,230.
The detailed appropriations asked for the University of Kansas are as follows:
1920 1921
Salaries and wages. $575,000 $575,000
New teachers ... 28,000 28,000
Maintenance, including Rosedale ... 191,500
bMerchants' short course ... 1,000 1,000
Contingent f u n d, chancellor ... 500 500
Repairs and perma-n e n t improvements, completion third floor, middle section, main building ... 2,230
Rebuilding a n d
equipping power
Plant ... 100,000 100,000
Another bill was introduced yesterday that allows for the reappropriation fees collected by state institutions.
Students Called to Account
Several students were brought before the faculty disciplinary committee Tuesday. Another meeting will be held today to consider the cases of students found at Wednesday night dances and those causing unnecessary disturbances near sorority houses.
Haley Will Play at Mardi Gras
Haley will furnish the music for the Mardi Gras given in Robinson Gymnastium March 1. The fair will commence at 7 o'clock and the exhibition and refreshment booths will be open all evening. Colored lighting effects will be used. Dancing will commence at 9:30 o'clock.
Nine Enter School of Law
Nine men enrolled this week in the Law School for the second semester. They are: Bernard Jensen, Herold Spencer, BenJ. Holland, Richard A. Toomey, Reid Phipps, John Montieth, John Kevan, Loren Welfmer, and two first name marshals have just returned from Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
Harold Spencer Resumes Course
Harold Spencer, a student in the University last year, has received his discharge from the navy, and has enrolled in the School of Law. Mr. Spencer is a middle law but is taking senior law as his necessary courses and enacted this term. He enlisted July 8, to attend Lakes, and later was in the Navy Ensign School at Municipal Pier, Chicago.
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