UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
Nominations Coming to Jaybawker Managers For Popularity Contest
NUMBER 52.
election Set For January 20— Only Owners of Books Can Vote
Marvin Harms New Editor
Fred Rigby, Retiring Editor, to Leave School at End of Quarter
Martin Harms was elected editor-in-chief for the 1919 Jayhawker Tuesday at a meeting of the Jayhawker board. He succeeds Fred Rigby, who is to leave school at the end of this quarter. Rigby succeeded Eugene Dyer, who was elected to the navy and more recently returned to newspaper work on the Kansas City Star.
Harms and Lynn Hershey, business manager of the Jayhawker will have office room in the old Kansan new room in the Journalism Building. The building is listed and all junior and senior pitches not in must be in by January 25
The names of thirteen nominees for the popularity contest have been announced by the Jayhawker managers. They are Doris Rosser, Charlotte Carney, Dorothy Button, Elena Chain, Derek Hancock, Allen Agnes Sutton, Ellen Grant, Velma Derrington, Ethel Wyckoff, Kathleen Davis, Virginia Mellin.
The new plan as was announced by the managers of the Jahyawkier Monday is winning the support of students and organizations on the Hill. At the different meetings of the organization, the committee has organized decision upon. Besides these nominations there have been about fifteen non-society nominations.
Eight places will be awarded in the contest this year, and a full page of pictures will be given to each of the eight winners. The sales of the Jayhawker will continue with renewed energy until January 19. All students who intend to vote and support one of the candidates must have a receipt for the purchase of a Jayhawker by that date.
The number of votes that each subscriber is entitled to cast will depend upon the amount he has paid on his Jayhawker. If he has paid the full $5,00, the price of the book, he will be entitled to cast 500 votes, but if he has only made a payment of $2.50 then he can cast only 250 votes.
The election will be held as any class election, January 20. A list of the students who have subscribed for the Jayhawker will be at the polls. As the subscribers vote, their names will be checked off. The purchaser will have to appear in person before he can cast a vote.
The names of all the candidates will be placed on the ballot and will be given to each voter as he enters the polls. He is to check the name of the woman for whom he wants to vote. A sales force of about seventy people are making a campaign and every student in the University will be given an opportunity to buy his Jay-hawker before January 19.
Varsity Basket Ball Men
Defeat Freshmen 24-20
Chalk-Talks by Coach W. O Hamilton a Valuable Aid to the Team
Chalk-talks by Coach W. O. Hamilton have preceded the regular practice in basketball Monday and Tuesday nights. The coach works out several plays and these are then practiced in both signal work and regular practice with the team. Ten Variety used the best part and Coach Hamilton used two sets of teams.
With a handicap of twenty points, the first Varsity five defeated the first-year men 24 to 20, the freshmen unable to score a single point. The second game also resulted in a victory for the Varsity men.
Coach Jay Bond was out for the first time, and coached the yearlings Coach Bond has been sick with the influenza for the past month.
The Varsity men out were: Bennett, Mason, Matthews, Bunn, Harms, Lonberg, Miller, Desmond, Adama, and Keckley.
Nichard Nelson of Kansas City, who has been in the tank service, has returned to school.
Chancellor Will Attend Telephone Hearing Friday
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 8, 1919.
Chancellor Frank Strong and John M. Shen, superintendent of buildings and grounds will go to Tomeka Friday to attend a hearing of the State Public Utilities Commission on a proposed change in the telephone rates at the University. The University has been receiving its telephone service for fifteen years at a nominal rate and the Kansas Telephone Company has asked an increase of about $2,734 a year.
K. U. has been paying about $1,000 for the service including operation and maintenance, and the K. U. heads are trying to keep the same rate. The company holds that the University should pay for service, according to the number of telephones on the Hill. After much correspondence the case has been referred to the Public Utilities Commission.
Rowland Clark Tells Of Chemical Service
Much Research Work on Teal / Gas, Mustard Gas, and Phosgene
Mr. Clark has been in the Chemical Warfare Service and has been stationed at the plant of the Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, N. J. He has been engaged in secret government work in the making of gas shells.
Sergt. Rowland J. Clark of St. Joseph Mo., e17, who until last March was an instructor in the department of chemistry, has returned to the University.
"No one was permitted to write what the nature of our work was," said Mr. Clark Monday, "and no unauthorized was allowed to enter the plant."
Mr. Clark was at first engaged as an inspector, while later he did research work in the laboratories. His work was largely with tear gas, mustard oil, and phosgene. Other plants at the Edgewood Araston work on nitrogen monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulphur-mono-chloride, and ethylene.
The arsenal was operated on a purely military basis, and was under the entire control of Colonel Walker. No civilians were allowed in the Edgewater pawn, all work of the arsenal being done by the 7,000 enlisted men
Mr. Clark re-enrolled in the University Monday to continue his postgraduate work. He will also do analytical work in the state survey of coals, which is under the supervision of the department of chemistry.
Dean Templin Guest
At Reception Thursday
The Members of the College faculty and the deans of the other schools of the University will give a reception in honor of Dean Olin Templin at 8 o'clock, Friday night in the rooms of the Advisor of Women, Fraser Hall. Dean Templin is expected to return to the University Thursday after an absence of a year and a half during which he has been stationed in Washington, as head of the Committee on Conservation in Schools and Colleges of the United States Food Administration.
A freshman in the college has been found guilty by the Disciplinary Committee of dishonest work in a written examination in Economics I last quarter. He acknowledged his guilt and was given a failure in the course. He was further penalized by being required to offer three extra hours credit for graduation.
Freshman is Penalized
Hong Pian in for the Dramatic Club play are being held today and tomorrow and the cast will be chosen by the end of this week. Much enthusiasm has been shown by the contestants in trying out and it is with difficulty that the final members of the cast can be chosen. Prof. Arthur Mac Murray, head of the department of public speaking, says the final cast will be of exceptionally good actors.
Is Named For Fellowship William Edwin Hoffman, A. B.'13 of Lawrence, has been recommended for graduate fellowship in entomology
Hold Finals in Play Try-Outs
Santry Reid has returned from Harvard where he was taking work in the naval radio school.
Sigma Phi Sigma announces the ledging of Kenneth Gunley, Freonia.
German People Greet Yanks as Liberators Says Capt. Vernson
K. U. Engineer Contrasts Hun Frightfulness With Pleas for Leniency
A letter recently received from Capt. Harry Vernson, e'19, of Blue Rapids, gives an interesting account of the attitude of the German people toward the American Army of Occupation. Captain Vernson, as many will remember, helped materially to beat Nebraska in '16. His position at right guard was one of the strong points in the line that year. He was commissioned at the first O. T. C. at Fort Riley. His letter reads:
Bitburg, Germany December 1915
What do you think of the new address? I like it very much—in fact, the people here treat us very well. I am very much surprised at the way they treat us. It isn't done so much in the open, as they seem to be afraid their neighbors will see them, or something of the sort, but in their homes they treat the men fine. seems better. Instead of victors, they look on us as liberators and treat us as such.
"It is raining again, which stands for almost any day. The fact is, the sun is such a rare thing here I have forgotten almost what it looks like, and get lonesome to get back home so I may see what it looks like again. "Last week I was in Luxenburg. That is a beautiful place, resembling the cities of the United States more than any other place I have been in since I have been here, with its wide streets and street cars running, and business going on as though nothing had ever happened.
"It is one contrast, going into a city like that, after living in a war-destroyed country a month and a half. I was situated right where the war was and has been, and all the towns in that vicinity were leveled to the ground, and were nothing but piles of powdered stone, where there once was a peaceful village. Take Verdun, for instance—a pretty good sized city of I, imagine, 75,000 inhabitants. There is not a thing left that would suggest business. In fact, there is not a whole building left standing, the streets being absolutely deserted, no civilians. It is surely a desolate sight to behold—The work of the Hun—and they want mercy.
"When I get home I am going to have a question night, and tell them all about it. After that I am going to refuse to take another bit, so if you are not there the first night you will be out of luck."
Leavenworth Teachers
Take Extension Course
A series of courses for public teachers and any other person interested in the work is being started in Leaenworth this week by the extension department of the University. Classes in commercial geography under Prof. W. M. Duffus, applied sociology under Prof. M. C. Elmer, and educational administration under Supt. R. A. Kent will be given. These professors will go to Leaenworth once a week to conduct the classes.
Requests for establishing classes in Topoka and Hutchinson have been received and according to H. G. Ingham of the extension department, classes in these towns will be startea within a short time.
Wis. Chemistry Fellowship
Ralph Mulvanyan Buffington, A. B.
'18, has been elected to a graduate fellowship in chemistry. Buffington was elected to this fellowship last year but resigned it to go into war work
Classes in French under Miss Amida Stanton, and Miss Vaughn, in political science by Prof. G. H. Derry, and in education under Dr. R. A. Schwegler are already being conducted in Kansas City.
Overseas Man Back
Sgt. John I. Hammond of Towanda, a former student in the School of Engineering has returned from overseas, having been wounded. He was a member of Company D, 353 infantry.
Wins Chemistry Fellowship
Presbyterian students and their friends are to be entertained at a social and mixer at the First Presbyterian Church Friday night'. Refreshments will be served by the ladies of the church.
W.S.G.A. Limits Women In Holding Offices In Student Activities
Point System Revived to Distribute Chances for
Honors
The "point system" has been revived as a test of eligibility for woman students aspiring to hold office and will be enforced by the eligibility committee of the University this year instead of by the council of the Woman's Student Government Association, members of the council announced after a conference with Chancellor Strong.
The aim of the point system is to prevent one person from holding more offices than she can successfully manage and to make it possible for more University women to take part in student activities. Each student office is given a certain rating in terms of performance; points a senior woman may hold is fifty, juniors forty, sophomores thirty, and freshmen twenty.
"I am heartily in favor of the point system." Chancellor Strong said. "Participation in student activities is good training for citizenship and for service after leaving the University. As many students as possible should be encouraged to take up work in student organizations and the point system guarantees this to some extent; it also prevents the introduction of a few women who are known as capable when there are plenty of others who are capable of doing the work but who are not so well known."
The revised point system, which Prof. H. C. Thurnau, chairman of the board, will use in determining the eligibility of women to hold offices as follows:
W. S. G. A.; president, 40; vice-
president, 5, 10; secretary, 30; treas-
urer, 30; senior and junior represen-
tation, 25; sophomore representatives, 15.
W. S. G. A.: president, 40; vice-president, 30; secretary, 30; treasurer, 30; cabinet member, 30; second cabinet members, 20; committee members, 20; committee members, 5.
Chairman of standing committees and departmental committees and those of honorary societies, 5. House presidents, 10.
Class Officers: junior-senior, 10;
freshman-som-homorrow, 5.
Publications: Kansan Board, 15
Annual editor, 30; Annual board, 10
Dramatics: Leads in plays, seniors and dramatics, 15; second parts, 10; junior and sophomore plays, leads 5; departmental plays, leads 5.
Pan heducic, president,
W. A. A.; president, 10; officers,
25; junior-senior representatives,
sophomore, 15; freshman, 10.
Glee Club: manager, 15; members,
5; orchestra members, 5.
DuPont Powder Company
Puts Scholarship Here
That Dupont Powder Company, the greatest chemical organization in the world, maintains a scholarship at the University of Kansas, is known to few. Some time during the summer the DuPont people decided to establish some thirty or forty scholarships and fellowships among the universities of the United States, selecting the University here for one of its undergraduate students. Another undergraduate students, in the department of Chemistry. The fellowships are open to graduates and graduate students. James S. Blair, junior completing his work this quarter now holds the scholarship here, and will continue with the work until the end of the current school year.
Ask 8 o'clock Classes
A petition is now being circulated among the students of the University of Kansas, in regard to the old time system of beginning classes at 8:10. The petition is on the bulletin board in the first floor of Fraser Hall, and no has signers as yet. The notice reads as follows: "We, the undersigned students of the University of Kansas, respectively petition the University Senate to return to the old school hours in effect 1st quarter, vix. 8:10 in the morning and 1:90 in the afternoon, as we lose 30 minutes each day with the new school hours.
Phi Gamma Delta will entertain with a house dance Friday night, January 10.
Gen. Wood Not to Speak At Convocation Thursday
Maj. Gen, Leonard Wood, commandant at Camp Funston, will not speak Thursday at University convocation He has gone to Oyster Bay to attend the funeral Theodore Roosevelt, according to a letter received by H. G. Ingham of the correspondence department. Unless General Wood is transferred to a more distant post he will come to the University at a later date, it is said.
Plain Tales From the Hill
According to Violet Matthews the worst pests on the Hill are W. S. G. A. members. Violet calmly led her date into a college im last night and walked right into the booth where one of the student council members was sitting. But Violet's presence of mind was with her. Oh, she said, as she drew up her chair and her date walked out of the booth," you are just the person I've been looking for."
The officers had a banquet the other night and the old favorite of erstwhile days is said to have been sworn in as the best favorite it is for the carling run;
Two drinks and the world is mine."
I care not for the stars that shine.
I care not for your beer or wine.
Give me only whis-keeee—
The love and the world is mine.
He and she were in the hall trying to say goodnight. Suddenly there was a giggle from the top of the stairs and the light went out. Then a voice from above:
"We advocate the Honor System'
Will all who have Phi Beta Kappa aspirations please take heed! Once, there was a senior who remembered something she had learned the term before and, what is more important, she had heard the year before that. And this senior is a Phi Beta Kappa. Take heed and do ye likewise.
MOTTOES AT GREAT LAKES
The man who pulls will beat the man with a pull.
Trifles make perfection but perfection is no trifle.
Life is like baseball? The hits you made yesterday won't win the game today.
A hat full of hot air may weigh as much as a bullet, but you can't shoot it through an oak plank.
The man who never made a mistake never did anything; the man that made too many lost his job.
Keep your temper nobody else wants it.
Late to bed and early to rise makes dark circles under the eyes.
Theodore Roosevelt was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
In the light of this revelation will the polterro, who has been insinuating that the New York street railways maintain one division where they employ only Phi Beta Kappa motorer and conductors, kindly ascertain or which peg his hat is hanging?
A certain young man on the Hill, who is particular about his washing, the other day wrote a note to his washerwoman and one to his girl, and, by a strange fatality, put the wrong address on each envelope and sent them off.
The washerwoman was well pleased at an invitation to take a ride the next day, but when the young lady read, "If you musse my shirt boom, and rub the buttons off of my color anymore as you did the last time, I will go some where else," she cried all the evening, and declared that she will never go with him again or even speak to the fortunate Phi Gam.
Announcements
The teams of the Y. W. C. A.
finance campaign will meet in Myers
Hall today at 4:45 o'clock.
..Quill Club will hold an important business meeting in the rest room Fraser Hall, Thursday evening, at 8 o'clock.
A meeting of the Y. M. C. a. will be held in Myers Hall, Thursday night from 8 until 9 o'clock. All men are asked to be there.
The Home Economics Club will meet tonight at 7 o'clock in Fraser Hall.
All students majoring in sociology are requested to meet with Prof. M. C. Elmer, Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, in Room 202, Administration Building.
Three Days Vacation To Be Given Students At Close of Quarter
No Other Holiday Granted Except Memorial Day—No Easter Vacation
Senate Arranges Calendar
A vacation of three school days,
Thursday to Monday, inclusive, be-
tween the second and third quarters,
was decided upon at the Senate meet-
ing Tuesday afternoon, in adopting
the calendar for the remainder of the
school year.
School Year Will Close June 13
—Commencement
June 16
The second quarter will close on Wednesday, March 19, and the third will open on Tuesday, March 28. There will be no vacation Easter, nor other holidays during the spring except Memorial Day, Friday, June 3, and on Friday, June 13, and Commencement Day will be Monday, June 13.
The date of the opening of the Summer Session has not been decided. Authority to set this date was given by the Summer Session committee by the Senate.
A step toward the revision of the University's constitution was taken by authorizing the addition of seven new members to the committee having this work in charge, and an eight to take the place of Dr. John Sundwall, who has left the University. The present members of this committee are Chancellor Strong, Dean G. C. Shad, Dean F. J. Kelly, Prof. F. H. Hodder, Dean Olin Templin, ref. F. E. Kester, Dean F. W. Blackmar, Prof. W. L. Burdick, Dean L. E. Sayre, Prof. H. P. Cady, Prof. C. S. Skilton, Prof. D. L. Patterson, Prof. A. J. Boyton.
Additional members of committees concerning student conduct and welfare to act during the Summer Session in the absence of a quorum of the regular committees were authorized.
School of Engineering Disregards the Quarter
Will Run in One Long Semester Until June, Says Dean Shoad
The School of Engineering will run in one long semester ending in June, contrary to the quarter system used in the other schools of the University. The total enrollment to date is 307, of which 160 are freshmen. According to Dean Schaad, most of the older men are still in service but will return to school when released.
A large number of the engineers are also at officer training schools and have not been sent abroad. The Engineering School claims the Vocational men who were trained in the school last summer, 900 of these men being in the Expeditionary forces in France.
The majority of the men in the service are "over seas." They are not confined to the engineering branch only, but are in almost every branch. In many countries having affiliated in Company M, which was organized in Lawrence.
Among the faculty who have joined the colors are: Dean P. F. Walker, stationed at Camp Dodge and who will be released within a few weeks; Captain Roberts, in France; Captain Haskins, who is now in Washington in the Sanitary Corps; Lieutenant Garver, U. S. N. Hoboken, N. J.; and Captain Jones, also in France.
Finance Committee to Meet
There will be a meeting of all of the W. Y. C. A. finance teams on Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock in the Hostess room of Mall. Dean Kelly will give a short talk. The captains of the teams are urged to see that all of the members of their teams are present.
C. E. Johnson Dies
C. E. Johnson, brother of Tommy Johnson, famous K. U. football man, died of pneumonia in Kansas City. The funeral will be in the Baptist Church, Thursday afternoon, followed by his step brother, David Leufer, in France, and Dora Leuffer, a former student of K. U.
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