NUARY 1, 1919
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Does Job Determine Religion?
Bright Cub Discovers Biologist Are Not All
Unitarians Nor English Profs. Episcopalians
"Does a man's profession affect his choice of religious denominations?"
The news editor of The Daily Kissan asked that question of a reporter. "Sure it does," replied the cocksure reporter.
"Got enough facts for a story?" "Sure, take the faculty. All biological profs are Unitarians, all math profs are Presysterians or Congregationalists. It goes it with chem profs, and somewhat with engineers, but many engineering profs lean toward Methodism or the Baptist Church, as do teachers of modern languages and sociology and language students of Episcopalians. The school of Medicine faculty belong to everything. So does the Law School gang. Economics and history profs hone to the Auld Lichts and the Congregationalists and Philosophy teachers to Episcopal and Unitarian.
"Chancellor Strong never misses a service at the Baptist Church," the news editor interrupted. "You're guessing. Go out and get the facts. That's a good story. Make it snappy. We need the copy."
The reporter went and found that a faculty member's choice of churches apparently was not affected by his calling, that instructors in biologic sciences were about as numerous in one church as another. Only one member of the English department was a member of the Episcopal Church, while that church represented the majority of the School of Engineering, the head of the Latin department, the Dean of the School of Pharmacy, a professor of philosophy and a professor in the School of Fine Arts.
"Now Chancellor Strong never misses a service at the Meth—"
More members of the University of Kansas faculty belong to the Congregational Church than to any other denomination and they represent mathematicians, painters, engineers, musicians, chemists, English instructors, School of Education, entomologists, botanists, bacteriologists, physiciana.
The Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist churches have almost the same size representation in the faculty. The Christian Church has only about six faculty members, which is about
the number of University communicants the Catholic Church has. Lutherans, Friends and other denominations have membership in the faculty that would be classified as "scattering" by the political reporters.
"The that piece is a little long winded," crabbed the news editor as the reporter finished, "can't you get it shorter and a little more jump to it." "Yes, you'd like a real snappy Christian Endeavor story," replied the reporter sarcastically.
"No, no. Cease with the satiate.
Get a punch into your stuff. Did you happen to think to ask any of those prof persons whether or not they might have a pull with their respective churches?"
"Hunh." grunted the reporter.
"Huh," grunted the reporter. "Well, you didn't and you missed a good part of that story and a good chance to do your University some good. You went to a denominational school before you came to the University. So did I, so did several dozen of the rest of us, and you know the mistaken notions they have of University religious and social life at many of these schools. You've heard absolutely false, lying assertions made of the universities by persons who sought to build up other schools at the expense of great state institutions.
"Well, you know and all the rest of us, who have attended denominal schools, know that student life at the University is just as wholesome, just as clean as at any denominational school. I'll go to the mat on that."
I know—yet when I was home Christmas I heard a steward of our church make absolutely untrue assertions about student life. I politely "called" him and he had to admit that he did not know what he was talking about and had only the vague hear-say information that was not information. The man, to put it very plainly, liebed because he had a hobby of a game that he was interested in. Now why can't these faculty felows who are pilars in all these churches set their brethren, who are elsewhere, right on the subject. Why didn't you get something like that into your story?"
"Didn't have time," replied the reporter, "I had to go to class."
By The Way
Lieut. C, C. Young, formerly director of the water and sewerage laborator of the water and sewage laborabeen transferred from Camp Wadworth, S. C. to Camp Meade, Md., as camp sanitary engineer.
The marriage of Lula Renn, '01, to Thomas R. Hayes of Monrovia, Calif., took place December 26 at Riverside, Calif. Mrs. Hays had been a teacher in a Los Angeles high school.
The Sigma Nu fraternity will entertain with a house dance Friday night.
The sororites in Women's Paneble lenic will exchange five guests for dinner Thursday night. Pi Phi will go to alpha Omicron Pi; Kaappa Alpha Theta to Alpha Xi Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma to Gamma Pi Beta; Chi Omega to Alpha Chi Omega; Alpha Delta Pi to Sigma Kappa; Alpha Omicron Pi to Alpha Delta Pi; Alpha Xi Delta to Χigma Omega; Gamma Phi Beta to Kappa; Alpha Chi Omega to Theta; and Sigma Kappa to Pi Phi.
The Topeka chapter of Phi Delta Theta will give a dance at the Chocolate shop tonight in Topeka. Albert Lakin, Dean Wilson, Merle Rutter, and Lieutenant Copass will go to Topeka today to attend the dance.
Miss Lera Christner of Washburn College is visiting Ruth Russel, c'21, at the Theta house.
Josephine Kenz, c'22, will spend Friday and Saturday in Kansas City.
Friday and Saturday in Kansas City.
Martha Thompson, Doria Rosser,
Hester Jackson, and Helen Thurston
will go to Topeka tonight to attend
the Phi Delta Theta dance.
Hazel Hess, fa'22, has returned to her home in Fredonia and will not be in school this semester, as a result of the influenza.
The Women's Student Council will give a Varsity dance Saturday evening at Fraternal Aid.
Mu Phi Epsilon will give a tea Sunday,
January 5, at 3 o'clock.
Sigma Kappa will hold initiation Saturday, January 4, followed by the reguar initiation banquet.
Stop at Wiedemann's when down town shopping and buy your lunch. Hot chocolate, coffee, bottillon and sandwiches. Also malted milk — Adv.
Sunday evening at 7:45 at Plymouth Church, Prof. W. A. McKeever of K. U. will speak on "Man and the New Democracy." This is the title of a book just accepted by the Doran Company. Prof. McKeever will be full of his subject. You will want to bear him. A week later Prof. Humble will speak on "Religion and Democracy."
Plymouth Jottings
Suppose you were to become a teacher in a High School. And suppose you were asked to teach a required or course lecture in Bible, or suppose you were a Topica Sunday School teacher and were asked to prepare your class for a Topica High School examination for credit. Would you feel competent? Is the average Bible very well written? Is the Bible or in things religious, not to say Christian? Anybody acquainted with the facts knows that the coefficient of our ignorance along these lines is very high.
It is to meet this legitimate demand that the School of Religion is to be revived. This is a school not connected formally with the university but fostered by some of the religious workers at the university. It aims to do serious work. Discussion groups meet a real need. But you would never become an astronomer by joining a discussion group. So you will never learn anything very advanced by merely discussing Christianity. Christianity deserves to be studied.
Do you seriously desire to prepare yourself for service in the Christian Church? The churches all need competent lay workers, teachers, and other religious leaders. Your chance to increase your equipment a little along these lines is in the School of Religion at K. U. Ask Dr. Dill about it, or Dr. Braden.
Yours very cordially.
ROSS W. SANDERSON,
Pastor of Plymouth.
WOMEN AS LADWIVES
In Finland women have been eligible for the Diet since 1906, and since 1907 have sat continuously in the Finnish Diet in numbers varying from fourteen to twenty-five.
WOMEN AS LAWMAKERS
Our standard of excellence is Purity. We use the finest materials always in all our candies. Wiedemann's—Adv.
Danish women became eligible for Parliament in 1915 and this year four women have been elected to the lower house.
In Norway, women have been eligible for the legislature since 1907, and two women have sat in the Norwegian Storthing as deputy members.
In the Netherlands, where women have eligibility but no vote, one woman was elected to its legislature.
In Canada, Alberta and British Columbia have elected women to their provincial assemblies. English women are now testing their Parliamentary eligibility. The Duchess of Maribor (Consulca Vanderbilt) has just been sworn in by the Senate Council. She is a suffragist and war the choice of the Progressive party.
Women have been elected in suffrage states of the United States to both lower house and in the senate; in 1917 there were eleven women in the lower houses* of five different states. One woman has been elected to Congress—Springfield Republican.
Don't suffer, with chapped hands. Our Almond Toilet Lotion is a perfect and an excellent preventive—City Drug Store—Adv.
We will be glad to meet our old friends as well as make new ones at College Five Barber Shop. Ballie Chambers and Skite Haven...Adv.
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