UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI
Musty Greek Drama Carries Modern Punch Miss Spinney Shows
Actress Receives Appreciation of Audience in Portraying Iphigenia
Voice Is Great Attraction
Play Loses None in Effect In Presentation By One Person
NUMBER 74
To anyone who saw Dorothea Spinney present *Euripides* Iphigenia, Greek drama will never again be something to read. It will be something to be translated into breathless, dramatic action.
less, bristling.
The whole atmosphere of the bleak Taurian coast, the waves washing the steps of the temple of Artemis, the fifty-oared Greek raily waiting to carry Iphigenia and Orestes safely away from death and the land of bloody sacrifices, the land of Argos for which the captive maidens mourn, remain in the spectator's mind as clearly as any setting made by a scene painter.
The combination of vigor andoleicy displayed in her acting proved her a really great actress. The mourning priestess and the loving sister of Orestes won the intense appreciation of her audience while the interpretation of the Taurian host men and the king, as his son of Orestes Plato lost no effect because being acted by a woman. The touches of humor, which are so seldom appreciated in Greek drama, caught the audience at once.
Miss Spinney's voice is one of her greatest attractions, as well as her grace of movement. She resembles Ruth St. Denis in her quiet, gliding changes from one pose to another and in her interpretation of Greek dancing. She gave the effect of her useless taking from the emblematic characters, which itself is a notable achievement. The personality of the actress and her evident love for the spirit of the Greeks were evident in her work.
Will Kansas Receive Money Spent for S.A.T.C. Barracks and Hospitals?
Presidents of Kansas Universi ties and Colleges Held Conference at Topeka
Steps are being taken in Topek to reimburse Kansas for the mone spent in the erection of the building occupied by the Students' Arm Training Corps. It is estimated the Kansas spent $200,000 in buildin barracks and feeding the soldiers.
The S. A. T. C. experiment cost the government $1,000,000 in Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, and Wyoming alone, and these are on a small scale. The agencies and universities in the United States that had the S. A. T. C. units.
The first step was taken Wednesday, when president of Kansas universities and colleges met in conference with Hale Cook, of Washington, of the business bureau of the War Department, and Capt. D. B. Miller, at Topkea. Government blanks were given the presidents on which they could estimate the cost of their unit, to be forwarded to Washington for settlement. Reimbursement for food has already been made. Chamberiller Frank Strong, of the University of Kansas was present.
Information for Teachers
A full set of reports from every high school in Kansas has been received by Prof. W. H. Johnson of the School of Education who is in charge of the teacher's bureau.
These reports are sent to every state institution by the Board of Administration for the use of the education of students and faculty. They cover a wide range of important high schools, very useful to prospective teachers who want to know about the schools in which they may teach.
Willard "Jap" Giancos has been discharged from the navy, and will reenter the School of Law Monday, as a senior. He has been stationed at the Naval Officers' Training School at Lawrence, Great Lakes, Ill.
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Alumni Letters Spent Four Years at Front
Among "other prisoners of war returning to the United States, are two letters sent to Mrs. Millardi Shaler, Rue Stevin 113, Brussels, by the Alumni Association of the University, November 14, 1916. They are in good condition, in spite of their long captivity, and bear the rather 'significant' statement in French and Flemish. "Gone without leaving an address." One is marked "Thirty cents due."
Mr. and Mrs. Shailer were in Brussels when the Germans took the city and let after Mr. Shailer became identified with the work of the Commission for Relief of Belgium. He is a mining engineer and had his office in Brussels before the war.
The Bigger 'Ole
Written, for students who are not busy to or
toy to read a paper from outside the campus
The Bill To submit a proposed constitutional convention to the vote of the people in 1920 was killed in the House of the Legislature Thursday, 64 to 52. It is still pending in the Senate.
A $2.29 Price to farmers for wheat, but the cheaper world market price to consumers is advocated in a bill the House agriculture committee has introduced in Congress. The government would stand the loss between the two prices.
Stirking London Railroad men have settled their grievances and arrangements for a national strike have been cancelled.
Traops Have Been sent to Seattle and Tacoma where 45,000 union men are out on sympathetic strike with 25,000 shipyard workers who struck January 21 for higher wages.
Kansas Jails May provide labor for road improvement, according to a bill introduced in the Legislature by A. M. Keene of Fort Scott.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, 1919
The First German National Assembly opened today at Weimar, Germany with 3,000 representatives. The town is closely guarded by troops to prevent a possible Spartacan attack. A constitution for the new republic will be among the first measures discussed.
General Pershing Denies reports that A. E. F. mail was delayed.
Five Butte, Montana, copper mining companies have cut wages seventy-five cents to one dollar a day after New York selling agencies had reduced copper prices from twenty-five to eighteen and two-third cents a pound.
Hun Troops Are attacking Hun sailor and soldier revolutionists who turned machine guns on citizens after pillaging shops and liberating 160 prisoners at Maggieburg.
The House In Congress is to resume today consideration of the $750,000,000 naval appropriation bill with its 3-year building program. Saturday the House is to begin work on the 6 billion dollar war revenue bill, the greatest tax measure in the history of the world. The measure has been six months in the making. To meet conditions of a dry nation the bill would tax $100,000,000 proposed. Corporation taxes, a prohibitory tax on child labor, and taxes on luxuries such as automobiles, candy, chewing gum, athletic goods, probably are to be biked too.
Henry Veeder, Counsel for Swift & Company, one of the big five hackers, testified before the Senate agricultural committee that his company contributed to the campaign funds of former Representative Taggart of Kansas in 1915 and Representative Rodenburg of Illinois in 1913.
The Hog Market was quoted barely steadily, and buying was indifferent in Kansas City, Thursday. Trade in cattle was active for the first time in weeks. Fat steers were ten cents higher than Wednesday, and busher cattle brought fifteen to twenty-five cents higher prices.
May Deliveryes In Corn advanced more than two cents by moderate buying of futures, in Kansas City, Thursday. Rumors of the advancement of the minimum export prices for Argentina corn, gave some strength to the market.
Alpha Chi Sigma, honorary chemical fraternity, announces the pledging of Charles Netties of Topeka and Herbert Barnby of Kansas City.
Clark and Hinds for Aggies and Miller for Kansas Were
Aggies Defeat Kansas 33-29 in First Game Of Two At Manhattan
Stars
The Kansas basketball team lost the first of the two game series with the Kansas Aggies at Manhattan last night in a close game by a 29 to 30 score. Kansas took the jump and outplayed the Aggies as the team won when the Kansas defense broke and the Aggies started the rally which won the game.
The Jayhawkers led at the end of the first half 22 to 18 but failed to play consistent ball in the second period. The Angies won the game through superior team play. The Kansas team has lost four of the five Valley games played so far this season. The Kansas five plays good ball at times but has been inconsistent all season and that style of pay cost K, U, the Argie game. Kansas plays the farmers again tonight.
Howard Miller was used at forward for Kansas and played true to his last season form being high point man and playing a good floor game. Ed Mason starred at guard for the Kansas. Clarke and Hinds, the two Aggies forwardes played chassis ball, Kansas will meet Poly Tech of Kansas City here February 12 in the next home game.
Sixteen Fellowships Open to K. U. Students On Competitive Basis
Applications Must Be Sent to Dean Blackmar's Office Before March 1
Announcement of sixteen University fellowships each yielding $200 a year, open to graduates of colleges and universities of recognized standing, was made today by Dean F W. Blackmar of the Graduate Shool.
These fellowships are granted on a competitive basis, and a candidate must file his application in one of the following departments: anatomy, ancient languages, bacteriology, bacteriology and pathology, botany, chemistry, education, economics, engineering, English languages and literature, entomology, history and political science, fine arts, geology and mineralogy, German language and literature, home economics, journalism, law, mathematics, pharmaceutical and biological chemistry, philosophy, physics, physiology and pharmacology, romance languages and literatures, sociology, Spanish languages and literature, and zoology.
Dr. Naismith to Return From War Work Abroad
All applications must be sent to the Dean's office before March 1, 1919.
Inventor of Basket Ball Was Head of Y.M.C.A. Hygiene Department
Dr. James Naismith, head of the department of hygiene of the international Y.M.C.A., expects to arrive in the United States by April 1, according to a letter received by Mrs. Naismith. Doctor Naismith, who was head of the department of physical education before going to France eighteen months ago, said he had met many K.U. boys over there, and that he has a little book in which he keeps a list of all their names.
Second Game of Woman's Series
The seniors will play the sophomores and the juniors will mete the freshmen in the second round of the woman's interclass basket ball tournament in Robinson Gymnasium this evening. The first game will start promptly at 7 o'clock and the games will be over by 8 o'clock. A. W.A.A. ticket plus three cents war tax, or twenty-eight cents will admit to the games.
Doctor Naismith, who is the inventor of basket ball was among the first of the professors to leave the University for war work.
Announcements
Prof. and Mrs. A. L. Owen will co- tertain El Ateneo, the Spanish club with a Spanish Fiesta at their home 1702 Massachusetts Street, Friday, at 8 o'clock.
Society of Architects To Publish Year Book Of Beaux-Arts Worl
Winning Designs by K. U. Students to Appear in Publication
A Year Book will be issued in May by the Architectural Society of the University of Kansas to consist chiefly of the winning designs of K. U. students in the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, New York. The Year Book, of which 1,000 copies will be printed, will go to architects of Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri, to prominent architects and contractors in the large cities, and to prospective students in accredited high schools of Kansas and adjoining states. The following staff will be in charge of the publication, under the supervision of Prof. Goldwin Goldsmith.
Ernest Pickering, e19; editor, Le兰 Benson, e20; assistant editor, Harold O. sincox, e20; business num- bers, e21; business manager, e20; assist- nient business manager,
This is the first Year Book to be published by the Architectural Society at the University, although many other universities and colleges make a similar publication, said Professor Goldsmith.
Chemistry, Math and Law
Courses to Open Monday
Students Allowed to Take Certain Work Under Old Semester Plan
Students may enroll in a few courses in mathematics, law and chemistry Monday morning, which marks the middle of the second quarter and the beginning of the second semester under the two-s semester plan. This change is made to allow student to finish work begun in the first quarter last year. In the courses offered no students will be allowed to enroll at the beginning of the third term.
All courses must be enrolled in at the first of the quarter except in the following cases. In the department of mathematics the courses analytics II at 9:30, calculus II at 9:30 and modern geometry II at 8:30 will last from January to June. All other mathematics courses begin at the first of next quarter. No chemistry courses can be entered next quarter except a few of the graduate courses and some of the highest undergraduate ones. Qualitative analysis may be entered Monday. In the School of Law, the sales tax is the quarter and shureships, damages, and domestic relations is offered the second quarter. Those who want to take engineering should take work in the college concerned with engineering and then transfer to the School of Engineering next year as all courses began in January and are continued until June.
S.A.T.C. Officers Slowly Receive Final Discharge
Officers in the headquarters company of the S.A.T.C. are gradually being discharged. Eight officers are still on duty awaiting their discharges. Lieut. D. Crittenden will receive his discharge Saturday, and will return to his home in Saline, Mich.
Sergt. R. E. Sneder will be discharged Saturday and private Will Johnson have been held at headquarters for officers duty. Eight was released today. Schneider and Johnson have been held at headquarters for offenders duty. Eight men are also being kept as an army truck squad, in case the trucks have to be taken over-land.
Women Excel Engineers In Work With Transit
Excellent records for accuracy are being made by the women students in observational astronomy, who are doing field work near Blake Hall this week. A regular engineers transit it used, and observations the same as fulllength engineers would make are taken. In observations they worked only a slight variation of three hundredths of a foot was recorded. This record is seldom equalled by engineering students.
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Varsity Football Team Elects Capt. Tuesday
The 1918 Jayhawker football team will elect a captain to lead the eleven next fall at the annual banquet to be held at a local cafe Tuesday night. Football- letters will be officially awarded at that time.
The two possibilities for the captainy seem to be Johnny Bunn, the halfback who scored the much needed touchdown at the Aggie game last fall, a junior in the School of Engineering, and Stem Foster, All-Star defensive player. He will be eligible because of the ruling in the Valley that S. A. T. C. football did not count as one of the three years allowed.
Plain Tales From the Hill
ODE ON EXAMS
I can't write, I can't talk,
I can't even think,
Every time I say exams
My heart begins to sink
I'd like to catch the guy some night,
Who invented quiz and test,
And if he got back home alive,
I'm sure he'd run his best.
The Chi Omegas have their goat to amuse them. The Kappas have their burglaries who scare the freshmen every night. But the Alpha Delta Pis get the prize when it comes to pets. Someone let a pig in their parlor Wednesday night. With pork chops as high as they are now, the Alpha Delta Pis say they are willing to open a home for friendless pigs anytime if someone will just furnish the "porkers."
One freshman's head has grown to be twice its original size since he met a fellow-student on the Hill who asked: "What pledge pin is that you are
"The Phi Bet's," calmly answered the freshman.
"Oh!!" exclaimed the surprised inquirer. "I didn't know that the Phi Beta Kappa pledge pin was like that."
She: The Armenians won't starve
I gave them five dollars.
He: (poor medic): If I ever did anything like that it would simply be a case of shifting the starvation.
One of the boys at a certain rooming house the other day was asked by his land lady to go down town and get a bar of Ben She soap. The poor unfortunate looked over the whole town, and it took three grocers to persuade him that Ben Hur and Ben She were one and the same.
Johnny Oles says there is notime like a Kappa upper-classman when it comes to sticking around the library when she ought to be at home and in bed. Johnny would much rather leave the library about nine o'clock but he can't unless all the older sisters have gone too.
JOHNNY PLAYS DETECTIVE
So about nine, he goes on his nightly tour of the library. First he takes in the main room, sitting in one corner presumably buried in Life. Then he goes upstairs and hunts history notes until he is sure all the detective sisters have gone. There is only one place after that—the Educational Seminar. This is the most dreaded of all hands, and Mr. Jones of the Kappa upper classmen are going to be school teachers. He usually runs onto a member of Student Council down there and then he becomes very much interested in "The Educational Review," for an hour or more.
There is more than one reason for some young men's broad education
Two Slants on the Kansan.
Two Kansan reporters were on Massachusetts Street Monday night. They wanted to look up something in one of the town papers, but in every restaurant they entered, they got the same reply: "We take the University Daily Kansan and nothing else." They felt very proud of their publication to think that it was subscribed to in preference to either the Journal-World or the Gazette until they went to interview Maxine Elliott and her manager informd them that they couldn't see her and if they worked on a newspaper they would know that without asking.
Lieutenant Day Here
Lieut. Harry Day who carried graduate work on the Hill last year was in town last night on his way home from Camp Zachary Taylor, where he was recently commissioned.
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Coach Bond Will Call For Indoor Work-0ut For Baseball March 1
Six Games With Ames Scheduled—Will Play Kansas Conference
Wedell to Coach Freshmen
All Last Year's Varsity Men Ready for Practice This Semester
The first call for indoor baseball practice in Robinson Gymnasium will be about March 1, according to Coach Jay Bond, who will have charge of the team again this year. The early call will give the men about three weeks to get themselves in shape for the outdoor workouts which generally begin about the middle of March. Coach Bond said he would have a big squandrum but this time the member of last year's Varsity team in school, and a majority of Dutch Wedell's 1918 freshman nine have returned.
Although only six games have been scheduled, it is expected that several other teams in this part of the country, and especially in the Kansas State Conference, will be represented on the diamond. No word has come from Manhattan as to whether the Aggies will play baseball this year, but Missouri will not have a team. The Emporia Normal and St. Mary's college always play baseball and K.U. almost always schedules two games with each of the schools. The six games on the schedule now are all held at the stadium to be played McCook Field and three on Ames field. Of the men from which Coach Bond will probably select the Varsity there are Bunn, Madden, Desmond and Chestnut; catchers; Marxen, Pierce, Harms, Slawson and Harrison, pitcher; Foster, Lonborg, Lashley, Harmes and Wells, inffielders and Weltmer, Smith, Oyster, Keeler, Vermilion and Convis, outfielders, all from either the Varsity or the freshman team of last year.
Dutch Wedell's return means that the freshman squad this year will again be able to give the Varsity some hard workouts, as Dutch has a habit of developing yearling teams of high class.
Prize Fights Not Aim Of Courses in Boxing Offered in University
W. O. Hamilton, Manager of Athletics, Praises Scientific Sparring as Man Develops
Boxing has been included in the regular work in physical culture at the University of Kansas, but no boxing matches between students of the University and the Kansas City Athletic Club will be allowed, as has been announced in news stories.
"Wood sawing will make muscle, but it won't give ability to handle those muscles. It won't give grace and poise. The army doctors showed up the alarming and woefully poor physical condition of young America. We need more sports to be a better nation at work, play and in everything. Physical directors knew this earlier they showed, but they couldn't say much about it for fear of being cried down as a boo-boosters. Another thing to remember is that athletes at the University of Kansas don't cost the tax payers a single red cent. Our athletics is entirely self-supporting."
"We're trying to build up mentally, physically and morally well-rounded men, not prize fighters," said W. O. Hamilton, manager of athletics at the University, in denying the report. "We have put in boxing because boxing trains a man to think and act quickly and to keep his head. It's a necessary part of physical training for a 100 per cent man. It is one of the best things to teach self control and it trains a man to act without panic or anger in stress of emergency.
Oregon University is to return to the old custom of holding vesner services, which were discontinued last term.
Journalists at Marquette University will give their annual dance February 14. It is called the Journalism Valentine.