UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI
University's Enrollment Of 3006 is Greater Than In Banner Year 1916-17
S. A. T. C. Brings Greatly In creased Numbers of Men— 1,000 Women Expected
Men Outnumber Women 2-1
Even Enrollment of Women Is Expected to Exceed 1917-18
Registration for this year in the University already exceeds the entire enrollment for the University's banner year of 1916-1917, according to figures from the registrar's office. The figures for this year—that is, the academic year alone, excluding the summer session—show 3006 students, 921 being women. These figures do not include the medical students in the Rosedale school, which she directed at the department. The University's former banner year was the year of 1916-1917, with an enrollment of 1006 women and 1303 men.
At the close of last year, there were 1018 women, but the indications at the registrar's office now are that the women's enrollment will reach or exceed this figure next quarter, as new students are coming in every day to enroll. At the close of last year there were only 1328 men, the large increase this fall being due to the S. A. T. C. Of the 2085 men now enrolled, between fifteen hundred and seventeen hundred are in the S. A. T. C.
Men Not in S.A.T.C. and Women Required to Take Physical Training Work
University Senate to Appoin Committees to Consider Exemption Claims
At the first regular meeting of the State Friday, October 4, the following
"Physical training shall be required of women students, and of men students not required to take military drill, to the extent of three hours a week for all freshmen and sophomores, and two hours a week of all others. This physical training shall be in charge of the department of Physical Education. Authority for these committees is three times each, one for men and one for women. These committees shall be elected by the Senate."
Professor Sisson says that there will probably be another meeting of the Senate this Friday, for the eleventh academic education exemption committees.
Prof. D, L. Patterson and Prof. F, E. Kester were elected as members of the Disciplinary Committee to sue the University of Burlick and Professor Patterson.
The motion was also passed that Dr. Goetz be authorized to grant temporary exemptions for women students in physical education until such time as the Senate committee on exemptions is elected.
Edgar Wertheim, formerly of the University of Chicago, and William F. Lange, of the East Texas State Normal College, have been engaged by the University to instruct in the department of chemistry, and have begun work here. Mr. Wertheim has done graduate work at Northwestern and the University of Chicago. Mr. Lange was graduated from William Jewell College, has done graduate work at the University of Missouri, and will continue to do graduate work in the department of chemistry here.
Chemistry Department
Adds Two Instructors
NUMBER
Induction of 250 Men To Be Finished Soon
The papers for 250 more men have arrived at S. A. T. C. headquarters here and their induction is to be completed within a day or two. Eight hundred men have been inducted so far and the work is being pushed as rapidly as the induction papers are put through. Eight hundred men were fed in the mess hall of barracks No. 2 at noon today. Mess facilities are being increased steadily.
The Red Cross is Mobile.
First Debate Meeting Will Be Held Tuesday
A meeting of all students interested in debating, both men and women, has been called for Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock in the Little Theater, Green Hall, for the purpose of 'orning a debating club.
"The forensic field of battle, to a certain extent, overshadowed by the real fields of warfare," said Prof. Henry A. Shinn of the department of public speaking. "It is up to us at the forefront to protect ourselves from perishing from the earth. And with the help of the women who are interested in debating, we can do it."
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 7, 1918.
Fifteen Section B Men Sent to Other Schools
Captain Scher Selects Administration Clerks for Kansas and Nebraska Units
Fifteen men who have been in training in Section B, S. A. T. C., at the University of Kansas were sent Saturday to fifteen Kansas and Nebraska universities and colleges by Capt. B. T. Scher, commandant. The men will serve as administration clerks. The men detailed and the order detailing them to this service are as follows:
HEADQUARTERS, S. A. T. C.,
Lawrence, Kansas
Special Orders,
October 4, 1918
No. 1.
Pursuant to instructions from Headquarters, Central Department, contained in paragraphs 9, S. O, No. 234, Central Department, October 2, 1918, issued in compliance with War Department's instructions of September 26, 1918, the following members of Section B, S. A. T. C of this University will proceed to the institutions stated opposite their names as soon as possible and report upon arrival to the commanding officers there-at for duty as administration clerks:
To State Manual Training School
C. F. Cittalupa, Kannas, Private
IVATE, E. B.
T to Kansas Wesleyan University, S
Jamaica, Salem, Kansas, Private
Jammer, T. Salem
To Washburn College, S. A. T. C., Topeka, Kansas, Private Walter L. Rippteau.
To Fairmount College, S. A. T. C. Wichita, Kansas, Private Vernon B Chism.
To Southwestern College, S. A. T.
To southwestern, Kanana, Private Cecil
R Maddix
To College of Emporia, S. A. T. C.
Emboria, Kansas, Private Roy
C Emboria, Kansas
To Ottawa University, S. A. T. C. O.
Cleveland, Kansas, Private Church
L Hahnus
To Baker University, S. A. T. C., Baldwin, Kansas, Private Herbert O. Tudor.
To Doane College, S. A. T. C.
Nebraska, Private - Gerald R
Linville
To Nebraska State Normal School S. A. T. C., Peru, Nebraska, Private Dwight E. Turkle.
To Ceighton University, S. A. T.
C. Omaha, Nebraska, Private Rifle
B. Omaha
To Nebraska Wesleyan University.
S. Nebraska University, North Hobeau,
Nebraska. PrIVATE UNIVERSITY.
The men transferred will travel with complete uniform equipment, but will leave behind blankets, bed-sacks and mess kits. The University of Kansas will pay commutation of rations at the prescribed rate of 75c per man for one day in advance in each case. The Quartermaster Corps will furnish the necessary transportation.
To Belleville College, S. A. T. C.
Brevue, Nebraska, Privates Fred A.
Blevue
To Hastings College, S. A. T. C.
Hastings, Nebraska, Private Paul W.
Slevin.
To Cotter College, S. A. T. C., Lin-
sahra, Nebraska, Private Jerome G.
Gully
Students in wireless telegraphy doing field work on the campus Temporary stations have been erected north of the Museum and near Fraser hall.
By order of Captain Scher:
Frank J. Cramer,
1st Lieut., U.S. Inf.,
Adjutant
The journeys are necessary for the public service.
Adjutant.
Doubling our quota today? You bet!
Four Hundred Will Come From Kansas and 95 Negroes From Missouri
Next Vocational Training Contingent at University Will Have 500 Members
Just as soon as the 350 men of the vocational section of the S. A. T. C. finish their course October 15, they will leave the University of Kansas for active service, and will be follow-up. They have of 500 men to take the same course.
According to terms of a draft call issued October 4 by Provost Marshal Crowder, 400 men from Kansas and 95 colored registrants from Missouri are to come to the University of Kansas October 15 for the usual period of vocational instruction. Registered men who wish to enter the service through the vocational course may volunteer any time before October 12, and if the various district quotas are not filled by that means on that date, additional training be selected, and sent to Lawrence to receive the course. This first call since General Crowder suspended the October entrainment calls on account of the Spanish influenza epidemic at many of the army camps. The total number called for service at this time is 29,999, of whom 980 will be negroes.
The War Here and Over There
French troops crossing the Aisne
Canal have reached the outskirts of
Augicourt, and are now approaching
Aumencourt-le-Petit, eight miles north
of Rheims, the French war office
announces.
General Pershing reports the Ameri-
fighting in the ranks of the Bulgarian
have been withdrawn, and are re-
turning to headquarters, says an official statement by the German general army headquarters.
German troops which have been withdrawn, and are returning to headquarters, says an official statement by General manne general army headquarters.
Serbian forces Friday, after violent fighting, entered Vranje, fifty miles northeast of Uskub. The Serbs took several hundred prisoners.
The Italian war office reports increased artillery activity on the lower lave.
Salvage Work Soon to be Organized—New Activities Are Planned
Compresses to Be Task For Women of University
Until further instructions are received the surgical dressings classes at the University will make compresses, which will be turned into the Lawrence Red Cross chapter. The quota of work for the down town nurses has been so far no arrangements have been made to make these on the Hill.
The surgical dressings room, 2050 Fraser, will be open every afternoon from 3 until 6 o'clock. Miss Margaret Lynn, director of war work for women, will have office hours from 10 until 12 o'clock.
Prince Maximilian, the new German imperial chancellor, announced to the Reichstag, Saturday, that he had sent a note through the Swiss government to President Wilson, requesting the President to take up the question of bringing about peace. The chancellor said Germany could accept President Wilson's message to congress of January 8, 1918; and his New York speech of September 27, as the basis for negotiations.
In addition to surgical dressings work, the salvage work will be organized this year and will be under the direction of a committee of students. They will co-operate with the Lawrence Red Cross. Women who will work at the salvage headquarters down town are asked to volunteer.
Women also will be chosen to give a certain amount of time each week at the cafeteria in Myors Hall. Later in the fall other activities will be organized, and every woman will have an opportunity for some form of war work, according to Miss Lynn.
Contest With Emporia Opens Football Season On McCook Saturday
Preliminary Game Expected to Give First Line on Available Material
The 1918 Jajayhawk team will meet the Emporia Normal eleven on McCook Field Saturday in the first football game of the season, in spite of reports that the game had been called off and the efforts of the Normals' athletic director to cancel the A message saying that the Normals play was received this morning by S. O. Hamilton, director of athletics.
Because of the opening of the S. A. T. C. at the Emporia school and the poor football prospects, it was deemed impossible to make a good show, so efforts were made to cancel the game with the University team, the statement being made that Emporia would rather not play the scheduled game unless K. U. insisted. In his speech, he athletic Director Hamilton did insist, and intimated K. U might find it necessary to seve athletic relations with the Normals. This was the course adopted with Baker under similar circumstances a few years ago.
"The game will be played chiefly to see whether K. U, as well as Emporia will make a good showing this season," said Mr. Hamilton this morning. "That is the main idea of the early season games—to get a line on whether our teams. We can't tell now whether we are in the main team, showing at all this year, and for that reason we want to get start as soon as possible."
The line-up for Saturday's game has not yet been definitely selected, but it is certain that Coach Jay Bond will make use of the occupation to try out several men new to the Varsity. Nothing is known here of the Teachers' other than their own admission of a squad of less than usual calibre.
The game will begin at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, the week-end date having been selected to accommodate the student soldiers. The north bleachers will be unreserved. Reserved seats will go on sale this week for $40 each. The gymnasium. They will be for the town, and the box office at McCook Field will open at 10 o'clock the morning of the game.
Kansan Buys Liberty
Bonds With Surplus
Journalism Building is First to Report Subscription More Than Doubled Quota
(1) —Please call for class cards in Room 119, Fraser.
"The workers are hard at it, and the subscribers are coming through in good shape," said U. G. Mitchell, chairman of the Liberty Loan campaign, when asked if the University would be able to double its quota. "I hope for a quick and decisive victory for the loan campaign."
The first building to turn in cards to the amount of double its quota was the Journalism Building. A big boost was given the campaign in that building by the purchase of $1,000.00 worth The Daily Kanman. This purchase was made on the amply on hand at the end of the year, 1917-18.
The campaign on the campus will be practically ended by Wednesday night according to the plans of the committee, and it is confidently expected that $50,000 will be in sight by that time.
Notice to Instructors in S. A. T. C.
(2) —Will you please send to Room 119 Fraser, following your class periods Wednesday, cards for those students who have not reported at classes, and send a list of students who have reported but for whom you would have been required. Rollment have been made necessary by introduction of various military units in the S. A. T. C., but we wish to check up as promptly as possible.
F. J. KELLY, Dean.
Achoth
Romana Hood. Kathlyn Hood. Gladys Long, Greenleaf. Gladys Sewell, Elk City; Rachel Shale, Chicago; Emma Houghton and Blanche Holloway, Lawrence.
Captain Scher to Speak
At Y. W. Meeting Tuesday
Miriam Merritt will give a few num- bers of organ music, and other specialties may be presented. Captain Scher's address will be the feature of the meeting, and all women who can do so have been urged to attend.
"What is Your Patriotism Worth?" will be the subject taken by Capt. B. T. Scher Tuesday afternoon when he addresses the first meeting this year of the Y. W. C. A. The meeting will be held in Fraser Chapel during the 45-minute period from 4:45 to 5:30 and the plans of those in charge are to start off the year with a rush.
Plain Tales From the Hill
For the early morning drill, there seems to be no place quite like the paving in front of various sorority houses.
The girls put aside their jersey dresses and furs this morning, and appeared in gingham or mildly blouses. The inevitable jersey dress will be used only for dress occasions from now on.
S. A. T. C. men who have been standing in line around Green Hall for the past three weeks will be relieved of that monotony, and now may do their standing on the drill field.
"That chap couldn't keep step with a snake," said the girl who watched a newly enlisted man slouch down the Twelfth Street hill.
Uniforms make it a bit hard for K. U. women to decide the all-important question of who is "keen" and who is not.
Owing to last week's famine, the egg olive sandwich and the milk chocolate have become University traditions.
The intulgent mother of a seventeen-year-old freshman has decided that the fare and rooms at a certain fraternity house are better than at the rooming-houses, and has had her son take his suit-case down to the chapter house and move in. The brethren are at a loss to know what to do, but they will probably pledge him, "C'est la guerre," they say.
Just after pledge service Saturday morning a number of freshmen went to the hospital and asked for gargle. Which shows that the scientific point of view is spreading and that the world moves on.
People are serious this year. Look out the window of your class-room and see the fellow leaning against the tree, rapidly memorizing the "Manual of Arms."
A number of K. U. women who were here last year would like to advance to the west end of the campus and have a look at the progress which has been made on the Ad. Building. If they could meet some place and go over in a body it might be arranged.
Preventing of Influenza Discussed by Cabinet
The chancellor's cabinet met in special session this afternoon to consider the danger of influenza spreading in the University and to determine methods of preventing or combating it when cases called by Chancellor Strong when issued a manual number of absences was received in many classes this morning.
The chancellor did not know the extent of the preventive measures that might be taken. They probably would include the forbidding of large gatherings indoors at motion picture theaters or similar gatherings, he said, and the visiting of other cities that are centers of infection.
"We do not know how much influenza there may be in Lawrence," said the chancellor. "We're trying to get ahead of it. Whether the unusually number of absences in classes indicates anything we have not deter-mented, it is here in any extent we should take precautionary measures at once."
A suggestion has been made by Dr. Ida Hayt that the Sigma Xi Society undertake to place on the campus a suitable memorial to Dr. S. W. Williston, the first dean of the Medical School, whose death occurred a short time ago. A meeting of the society will probably be held soon to consider the nature of the memorial and the plans for obtaining it.
Doubling our quota today? You bet!
October 15 is Last Day For Students to Enter S.A.T.C.ofUniversity
Drilling and Class Work to Be Well Under Way Early Next Week
Barracks Being Occupied
Marine Corps Section May Be Filled from Draft Quotas If Necessary
"All men who are intending to enter the Student Army Training Corps at the University of Kansas must do so before October 15," said Capt. Bruno T. Scher, commandant, this morning. According to orders received recently from the War Department, no man can be inducted into the S. A. T. C. after that date and all induction papers and competent orders are at that time returned to the War Department.
The enrollment of men in the Student Army Training Corps continues each day and from all indications it is thought that many will be here at the last minute to try to enter. The doors of the commandant's office will close at 12 o'clock midnight, October 15 for all enrollment.
October 15 is set as the dead line for enrollment of men because after that time the drilling and class work will be progressing rapidly and if there are continually admitted to the ranks, it would interfere with the training.
FEW ENTER MARINE SECTION
The 140 men who will fill the quotes for the marine section must volunteer before October 15. If the number can not be raised at the University the quota will be filled by men sent in here from different training stations and perhaps by voluntary induction from the different draft boards. On account of the high qualifications of the men in this section of the Student Army training corps there have been few applications for admission to this section. All applicants must be 18 years old, and have at least sophomore standing. According to Lieut. H. B. McPeak who is in charge of this recruiting, only a few men are in sight for this section.
More than a hundred of the men in the S. A. T. C. spent their first night in the army barracks on McCook last night. These were men who have not been able to get rooms. Although not all the equipment is in the barracks yet the men were made comfortable. Cots and blankets are here and enough to accommodate the men were put up in the first barracks. Men who have not had suitable quarters since their arrival in Lawrence, on account of overcrowded conditions, will be taken care of in the barracks.
HUNDRED MEN IN BARRACKS
STUDY EVERY NIGHT BUT ONE
The men will have only one night off this week, coming to Captain Scher, and that will be Saturday. Friday will be devoted to study periods for the work to be done Saturday morning.
Lieut. Chaucey Hunter
Visits Campus Scenes
The supervised study of the men in the S. A. T. C. will be held in the large study halls that are being built in each barracks. If this will not accommodate the men they will use the rooms in University buildings. Supervised study for the men will not start until all the men are in the barracks.
Lieut. Chauceun Hunter, c'17, is in Lawrence on a 2-day visit with old friends. He is on his way from Fort Sill, Ok., where he has been taking artillery instruction, to Camp Caster, Mich., where he will join an artillery regiment. Mr. Hunter left school in the spring of 1917 to attend the first officers' training camp at Fort Riley. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant and since then has seen varied service in cavalry and infantry regiment at Camp Funston, at Camp Jackson, S. C., and Fort Sill, Mr. Hunter hopes his new assignment will send him overseas soon. He was a member of Alemannia at the University.
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Students desiring to study stenography and typewriting should see Miss Margaret Lynn, Room 205 Fraser Hall. Classes in these subjects will be held open a few days more by Miss Lynn.