UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 151.
VOLUME XV.
Nearly 450 Students Will Receive Diplomas At K. U. This Spring
College Leads All With About 250 Grads; Graduate School Has 87
Ambassador Gerard Will Give Commencement Address On June 3
Nurse Certificates to Nine
About four hundred and fifty students will be given degrees from the University of Kansas this spring. The exact number cannot be known yet because the grades have not come in.
Figures obtained at the Registrar's office this morning show the senior enrollment of the different schools as follows: College, 250; Graduate School, 87; Engineering, 42; Medicine, 17; Law, 26; Pharmacy, 11; Fine Arts, 11; and Education, 2.
Of those who have applied for degrees, two hundred twenty-three from the College are for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and for Bachelor of Science, and seventeen for Bachelor of Science in Medicine. There are twenty-four candidates from the School of Fine Arts, three for Bachelor of Painting, nine for Bachelor of Music, one for the three-year certificate in piano, and eleven for the teacher's certificate in public school music. There are nine requests for the Nurses' Certificate from the School of Medicine. The degree of Bachelor of Science in Education is the degree given from the School of Education.
Commencement week starts June 1, and lasts three days. The first day is filled with Class Day exercises, alumni meetinga, senior luncheon, baseball game, Fine Arts concert and senior-alumni ball.
Permanent Income Bill Will Be Boosted Next Year by Kansan Board
Sunday is baccalaureate day with a band concert and an address by the Rev. Clyde MeeGee, of the Union Church, Chicago, Ill. The Commencement exercises will be held Monday morning. James Gerard, former United States Ambassador to Germany, will deliver the address and Chancellor Strong will confer the degrees.
New Members and Officers Elected to Board at Meeting Last Night
The University Daily Kansan board voted to boost the Permanent Income Amendment strongly this year and next year and to make an impartial investigation of the six-day plan of school for next year at its meeting Wednesday night. Simplicity in all social affairs at K. U. for next year was passed upon by an overwhelming majority.
The new members elected to the board were Earline Alen, Una Stockwell, Basil Church, Edgar Hollis, Harold Hall and Deane Malott. The editors elected to serve for the remainder of this year and the first two weeks of next semester are: Editor-in-chief, Mary Smith, who succeeded George Montgomery; society editor Earline Allen who succeeded Helen Peffer; who succeeded Luther Hangge; who succeeds Howard Morrison; who presents a plain tales editor. Helene Peffer who succeeds Millard Wear. M. L. Peek was re-elected news editor.
Fred Rigby, business manager, reported probably the best financial year in the history of the Kansan, in spite of adverse war conditions.
University Orchestra Concert
University Orchestra Concert
The University Orchestra is preparing a special program for the concert to be given in Fraser Hall, Monday night, May 20. Assisting artists are to be Prof. Frank E. Kendric, violinist, and W. B. Dalton, cellist.
Mid-Week Dates Get O. K.'ed
Mid-Week Dates Get O. K. Ed
No longer will the forbidden mid-
week dates frequent the movies,
dances, and ice-cream parlors with
fear in their hearts of discovery.
At the last meeting the members of the
W. S. G. A. decided to call off the
date rule for the remainder of the
term, beginning with Thursday, May
16th.
Kansas Ready to Meet Tigers on Tennis Court
The Kansas tennis team is in shape and ready for the Missouri team which will be here Saturday, May 18. The tennis matches will probably have to be held at the same time as the high school invitation track meet.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 16, 1918.
The courts will be in fine shape i it does not rain before Saturday Matthews and Skaer are working hard every day to be in the best of condition for the matches. Captain Kenneth Ubls will be down Friday or Saturday and make final arrangements for the meet.
The War Here and Over There
A new plan for using in necessary war factories and industries the drifted men who were given a deferred classification because of dependents, has been laid before President Wilson by the provost marshal's office. The draft age would not be extended, and men would be amply paid for their work. Plans are being made for substituting men physically unfit for warfare for those who are fit, but are now in non-combatant positions.
Here and Over There
The total of American casualties to the present time is 5,788. This includes killed in action, 715; died of wounds, 175; died of disease, 1044; died of accident, 237; died from other causes, 63; severely wounded, 492; slightly wounded, 2,800; unclassified wounded, 8; missing in action and prisoners, 254.
The somewhat prevalent idea that Germans interned in America are fed on the best of foods has been corrected. They are fed on regular garrison rations as required by international law.
The United States Civil Service Commission has issued a call for thousands of women to be used in not less than sixty different kinds of work, chiefly in Washington.
Three German airplanes were shot down by American aviators Wednesday in the Toul sector. Five American aviators were given the French war cross.
A million orphans in France has been one result of the war.
Because American shoes proved unsatisfactory for wear in the trenches, American soldiers in France are wearing English boots.
The demand for, Y. M. C. A. workers for overseas duty is a force large enough to make a need for recruiting about 1,000 men a month and more than 100 women.
No mail from this country other than first class is being sent into Belgium by a recent order of the War Department.
Alumni Engineers Plan Improvement of Shops
Will Meet Commencement Week To Consult With Faculty
Graduates of the School of Engineering will meet at the University June 1 to discuss the rebuilding of Fowler Shops. Since the destruction of the Shops they have begun to take an active interest in the rebuilding of the shops and making a better School of Engineering.
The graduate engineers will confer with the professors of the department, to formulate plans for getting new electrical equipment for the school, more professors, and better laboratory conditions. The professors plan to have some definite ideas to set before the alumni of the school, and then it is planned that the alumni will go to the legislature and endeavor to get an appropriation to cover the improvements.
Mrs. Eustace Brown, chairman of the joint committee on student interests, has deemed it unnecessary, unless the student body desires it, to have the meeting called for tonight of the representatives of the various student organizations to consider the regulation of social affairs under war conditions. Mrs. Brown has called off this meeting because of the action taken by the two councils concerning the matter.
No Meeting—Mrs. Brown
Any Man Who Has Experience On Farm Should Do That Again
U. S. Government Asks All College Students To Work This Summer
Students Should Not Loaf
Prof. Dains Will Assist K. Men and Women to Get Patriotic Jobs
The United States government is asking all college students not engaged in war work this summer to enroll in the collegiate section of the Public Service Reserve, according to a bulletin recently sent out by the Department of Labor.
"This summer every healthy college student who is not receiving military training ought to be at work. Hard physical work is the best recreation a student can get, and while our country is at war it is a disgrace for any one who can work to spend his time 'n idleness or play.
"Every man who has ever done any work on a farm owes it to his country and to our allies to work on a farm this summer. The world is short of food. American farms must supply the demand. Those who can be of no use on the farms can find other valuable work. The college student should not expect or ask for anything very glorious in the way of summer vacation service. Conditions surrounding farm work and "common labor" are not particularly attractive, and the work is hard, yet by serving the government the laborer is doing his utmost.
The bulletin says:
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"Primarily the duty to find a place to meet the rests with the student himself. The Government is ready to help him find a chance to work. It will find places for many students; the others should use their own initiative and find places for themselves."
An officer has been appointed in each college in the country to look after this work. Dr. F. B. Dainis is in charge of the work here at the University. Any student wishing to enroll for service should see him at once. The service will have positions ready for the men as soon as they leave college if they desire.
U. S. War Department Planing to Instruct Men Attending College
Plan Intended to Develop Mi itary Asset and Prevent Depletion of Colleges
F. M. Zeigler To Fly
Miss Topping to Dance "A Summer Day"Ballet At Children's Benefit
F. M. Zeigler, assistant in the department of geology, has been ordered to report on May 25, to Austin, Tex., where he will enter the aviation ground school. Mr. Zeigler will leave Lawrence Friday for Austin.
This new policy aims to develop as a great military asset, the large body of young men in the colleges and to prevent unnecessary depletion of the colleges through indiscriminate volunteering, by offering to the students a definite and immediate military status.
The University committee on military training is considering the advisability and possibility of military instruction for all men students of the University. The Secretary of War has authorized the statement that a comprehensive plan will be put into effect by the War Department to provide military instruction for college students, beginning with the next college year.
Military instruction under officers and non-compromission officers of the army will be provided in every institution of college grade that enrolls 100 or more ablebodied students more than 18 years old. The necessary military equipment will, as far as possible, be provided by the government. Enlistment will be purely voluntary, but all students over the age of 18 will be encouraged to enlist.
The enlistment will then make the student a member of the United States Army, liable to active duty at the call of the President. It will be the policy of the government not to call the members of the training units to active duty before they have reached the age of 21.
Class of Twenty-two Pupils Rehearsing to Appear In Program
K. U. Orchestra Will Plav
french Children Benefit Will
Be Given In Bowersock
Theater, May 23
Daily rehearsals are now being held by Miss Helen Topping's dancing class of twenty-two pupils in preparation for the benefit for the fatherless children of France which is to be given at the Bowersock Theater a week from tonight, Thursday, May 23. The University Orchestra of eighteen pieces, under the direction of Prof. F. E. Kendrie, will play for the dances, and for some of the other numbers on the program. Mrs. Herman Olcott and Prof. Carl Preeyer are the other featured soloists.
HELEN TOPPING
Who will lance in the benefit for the fatherless? France
The first number of Miss Topping's program is a barefoot ballet entitled "A Summer Day," using music by Raimainoff and Leybach. Sixteen dancers take part. The "Day" is depicted from the dawn to the darkest hour before the succeeding one.
By special request, little Lena Seibert, who made a distinct hit at Miss Topping's Red Cross Benefit last year, will repeat her "Mimut in G." She will also appear in two other numbers. Betty Jane Fox, another of Miss Topping's Kansas City pupils, will appear in two numbers.
Three Teams Entered For Invitation Meet
Miss Topping is to dance "Spring's
Greeting," to a solo sung by Miss
Margaret Hodgson. Clyde Farnsworth, Miss Topping's dancing partner . . . appear with her in an "Adangio" to Massenet's "Meditation"
from "Thaas."
Patronesses at the benefit will be:
Mrs. Anna Shanklin, Mrs. E. H.
Brown, Miss Margaret Lynn, Mrs. E.
O. Perkins, Mrs. E. W. Murray,
Mrs. Wm. Hutson, Mrs. J. A. Farrell, Mrs. D. F. Doane, and Mrs. F. B. Daines. The proceeds of the entertainment are to go to the Fatherless Children of France fund.
Only three entries of track teams for the invitation high school meet to be held on McCook Field Saturday had been received up to noon today, according to Coach W. O. Hamilton. The three teams whose entries have been received are Westport and Central of Kansas City and Valley Falls, Kansas.
The Olympic Society has charge of entertaining the high school athletes during their stay in Lawrence. They will be sent to the various fraternity houses on their arrival Friday night.
The small children in Miss Topping's class will appear in a Greek Ball Dance, and in the final ballet, which is to music by Delibes, from "Compella."
Several other schools are expected to enter teams, including Northeast High of Kansas City, Mo., Lawrence, Topeka, and Kansas City, Kan. Several individual stars of the state meet which was held here May 4 have been invited and are expected to be here. Among them are: Pringle of Harveyville, Lamb of Belle Plain, Matthews of Kincaid, and Hawley of Iola.
Many Regular Courses Given in Summer Session
The regular work in histology, embroiology, anatomy, and neurology, will be offered in the summer school session, for the medical students, histology and anatomy will be given during the entire ten weeks, and embryology and neurology will be offered only during the first six weeks. Other courses given which belong to the medical course, are medico-erbitrology and medico-therapeutic chemistry, and medico-chemistry. There will be a six weeks' course in patheology, given in the summer session at Rosedale.
Plain Tales From The Hill
One question which is troubling University students in considering the rejection of the six-day plan is whether or not the overworked student will go to school on that extra study-work-laboratory day (Saturday), according to the "sun" time or according to the war-summer-saving-hour later plan.
Visitor (after viewing the campus): "But I don't think that it's right to post those advertisements of dances and such things on that man's monument."
K. U. student: "Which monument?"
V. : "That one at the entrance to the campus, where the walk divides."
PROF. WAKE'S 'EM UP
A professor yesterday dismissed his astronomy class for fifteen minutes in order to wake up the attentive students.
UXTREE! UXTREE! UXTREE!
The supply of Daily Kansans containing the full account of the lowering of Professor Dykstra's roof has been exhausted, and no more copies of the paper containing this story can be obtained at the business office of the Kansan.
GENE COMES BACK
Telegraphic reports from Kansas City wish to announce the return to Lawrence Saturday of Eugene Dyer, former news editor and editor-in-chief of the University Daily Kansas, now on the telegraph desk of the Kansas City Star. He is also a member of Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity. Mr. Dyer's rise in journalism has been rapid, advancing from a reporter on the Star on which job he started last February to a responsible position on the telegraph desk of the paper.
He will visit friends in this city.
Fowler Shops Ready Soon for Wooden Roof
First-Floor Machinery Has Been Cleaned And Oiled
Convocation Starts Red Cross Campaign At University Monday
Fowler Shops is rapidly being cleared of rubbish and ashes and will soon be ready for the new temporary roof. The first floor has been cleaned up and the machinery polished until one can scarcely detect that it was almost a pond of water a few days ago. Ten to fifteen men are at work and the trash is being shoveed out the south side of the building and hauled away.
Material for the roof will probably be purchased in Lawrence, since local lumber dealers are able to furnish the necessary kinds of lumber.
Maj. W. W. Davis Reviews Regiment In Dress Parade
the University of Kansas regiment formed in battalion dress parade Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock before Major W. W. Davis. The band played the companies into formation, the adjutant posting the guards and Major Davis acting as reviewing officer. The entire regiment was used in battalion formation.
Men's Glee Club To Sing
The Men's Glee Club will sing at the next convocation, which will probably be held next week. The club has practically finished the work for the year and gave a number of successful concerts. Twenty-four men have qualified for Glee Club pins. The last rehearsal of the season will be held Tuesday, and at this time the manager will be elected for next year.
Henry M. Beardsley, Widely Known Kansas City Man, To Speak
Ask Pledges Immediately
Minimum
No Definite Amount Set for Students—Committee Has Minimum
The campaign for the University will be started Monday, May 20, the first day of the week set aside for the national drive. An all University convolution is called for Monday at 4 o'clock in the gymnasium at which Henry M. Beardsley of Kansas City will speak.
The Red Cross Extension Committee for Douglas County has made the University a separate unit and placed the matter of raising the University's share of the $100,000-000 in the hands of the University War Committee.
ASK PLEDGES MONDAY
Immediately following Mr. Beardley's address, pledge cards with envelopes will be distributed and collected immediately. In as far as possible it is requested that all pledges for students and faculty be made at this time and that payment in full accompany the pledge. The pledge card, and if possible the payment, is to be placed in the envelope, the envelope sealed and passed back to the usher. Official receipts for all payments will be made out and placed at the Registrar's office Tuesday noon, together with Red Cross badges.
No definite quota has been assigned the University. Realizing that campaigns of this nature are to be conducted at more or less regular intervals during the war, the city committee has attempted to establish a systematic basis for the minimum subscription at the time. The basis is made one-tenth of one per cent of the assessed valuation of each tax payer's property or one-tenth of one per cent of a year's salary for people on a salary, and for University faculty a minimum amount is set at one-tenth of one per cent of the sum of any assessed valuation plus the annual salary. For example, a man having property assessed at $2,000 and a salary of $2,000 is requested to give not less than $4 at this time.
STANDARD FOR STUDENTS For students the committee has fixed a minimum of one-tenth of one per cent of what the student considers is his yearly allowance. In case of students working their way through the University the amount may be as low as twenty cents. It is understood that this is merely to fix the low limit. An effort will be made to see that not a single member of the University, student, faculty, or other employees fail to give as much as possible. An unusual response at the convection will greatly lighten the labor of the finance committee.
STANDARD FOR STUDENTS
Quick Sales for Red Cross
Chickens, Live Stock, and Squirrels Help to Raise Funds
And the chickens! All the coops in the countryside must have been raided. Visions of chicken-pie loomed irresistibly and bidders bid almost unconsciously. There were panting cocks, game fowl, sedate hens with broods, pulllets, frys and setters. One hen so thoroughly caught the spirit of the day that she contributed one fresh egg.
A veritable menagerie, stock farm, and chicken ranch combined, along with innumerable odds and ends were sold and resold at the Red Cross auction sale on West Ninth street yesterday afternoon. Among the animals were found pigs, rabbits white and brown, one young moo cow, several wagley calves, a squirrel in a revolving cage, Shetland ponies, puppies, each seeming glad and willing to help in the good cause.
Lusty throated auctioneers sold the goods and experienced little trouble in obtaining bids.
Germany is using nettle fiber for spinning thread because of the scarcity of raw cotton.