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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV
GIVES STIRRING TALK
NUMBER 5.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMB ER 15, 1916.
Chancellor Strong Addresses Students First Time This Year
A HEART-TO-HEART TALK
Says State Owes Something to Men and Women Here
Cheer for freshmen, advice for upperclassman, a plan for more teachers incomes and equipment at K. U., and a general survey of the college man and bishop of the chief points of "The Family Talk" delivered by Dr. Frank Strong this morning at the annual opening convocation of the University. A crowd that filled Robinson Gymnasium to its capacity held the chan
Dr. Strong opened his address with the clever illustration, comparing the two states.
"When students first come up here they are all new and painted up, shining a vivid, bright green. Many of them also come with tightly inflated tires. As the year goes on many blowouts and punctures occur. Some fail to bring their chains and mud hooks with them which would enable them to pull up the Hill, over the rough places and out of the mud holes.
SOPHS HAVE LESS PAINT
SORTS
"The second year the students come back with a little of the paint worn off, but the engine works a little better although they delight in coming up Fourteenth Street with their cut-out open. This year too, numerous blowouts occur; but by the third year the paint is pretty badly scratched off, but the engine is working fine and everything goes along fairly well and by their senior year everything runs smoothly.
"Students, you need not be discouraged if you are not important or prominent in college life as it is not always the prominent ones in college who are influential in life. Some may reach great distinction on Mt. Oread and that will be the height of the career and they go down from that time. I have seen students, who were leaders here, who became teachers and cities of Kansas that any college student should be ashamed to do after receiving a training to fit him for better work. Many of our great men do not attain renown until late in life so remember and do not gain distinction early in life.
MUST BE HONEST ALWAYS
"We often hear persons say that there is more gained in college by one's association and experience with other men than is attained through books and I grant that there is much value in meeting and associating with other men, but examples show that the men who are intellectually bright in the world were also intellectually bright in college. The idea reflects that only a few students in college without effort expended on study and then by some magic be turned out into the world with a wonderful intellect is all false.
"And furthermore, you can't be something here and then be something else when you get out of school. You can't be dishonest and crooked in college and be a straight honorable man after you get out. So if you want to go out into the world an honourable, clean man you will have to be one here. You will never be great afterwards if you are a drone here."
YOU OWE KANSAS SOMETHING
"The state of Kansas is expecting much of you and you are indebted to it. The University belongs to the state and if you are a man or woman, you should get a lot for nothing and you owe it to your benefactor to give it the best that is in you after you get out of school. But there is also another side to this matter and one which it is the responsibility of you to realize and that is that the state owes you something. The state is indebted to each generation; it owes to you all it can possibly do for you but this will be reversed when you graduate. The state will then owe you money and you will be indebted to it."
Dr. Strong then spoke of this being the fifty-first annual opening of the University, When K. U. opened there was one building, North College, three professors and fifty-five students. Last year K. U. had twenty-three buildings, 225 students on the faculty and 2959 students. The income fifty-one years ago is $700; the income fifty-nine years ago is $700; it was stated that the enrollment this year will reach 3200 or 3300.
"Each day," said the chancellor, "we read criticism of our system but the growth of our institutions shows that the people are not lacking in confidence. Furthermore the figures show that the balance of power is
Dr. Strong then read statistics to show the size of other big universities and colleges in the United States and stated that this showed the confidence of the American people in the colleges. ?
moving westward. Columbia University, of course, leads the list but the other big enrollments then shift to the middle west and will continue to do so.
K. U. WOULD HAVE 5,000
"K. U. would have a enrollment if it were combined with the Agricultural College, as it is in most of the other states and we also suffer in comparison as to teachers incomes, and equipment. The University of California, in a bulletin sent out last spring, announced the passage by the board of regents of a budget of $2,525,000. Other universities with which K. U. should be on offer are far ahead of us score."
“Our graduates today are charged with a lack of earnestness, inability to think and decide–indefinitness to prove the worth of our work or less correct. We can't blame you students for it nor can we ourselves assume the blame, but I feel certain that the lecture system, which is it, works.” We brought about this indefiniteness.
LECTURES MAY BE BAD
Dr. Strong then illustrated his point by stating that it is impossible for one to learn anything without exertion and that in big lecture classes, which run as nigh as 400 members, in the eastern schools, students can go and lounge in ease during the lecture and let the lecturer do all the work.
This problem can only be removed. he straced, by providing more teachers, so that a system can be used which provides opportunity for smaller classes, discussion among the students and more individual work. It would require $100,000 at K. U. at once or instructors on the faculty to do this.
"The parents of the children of Kansas complain about the University because it is detrimental to the moral and spiritual development of their students," he noted. He said that college men refuse to conform to the current of public opinion on big moral questions, but that churches have granted that the university a none of the state institutions of Kansas that of the denominational schools.
a plea for sound patriotism was made. Dr. Strong stated that patriotism has taken on a world aspect and this some day patriotism will not mean more loyalty to a state or a nation but greater peace, a great peace leading laitons of the world.
"If you could have seen the patriotism displayed by our boys when they left for the border last June, no one on the young men of today. The boys today love Old Glory just as much as their fathers did and it is all nonsense that the men of this generation are patriotic as any that have lived."
That Europe is without students today on account of the war was emphasized by the chancellor. And after the war the men there will be crippled and maimed—only half men. He was one of the victims of America as the ones who must determine the standards not only here but in the world.
Dr. Strong concluded his remarks with the statement that the world is taking a new attitude toward religion drawing nearer toward an evangelical religion. Great cataclysmics are often times necessary to arouse the world, he stated, and some things are clearer than others. He felt the feelings of the innermost spirit.
STUDENTS GET CHANCE
TO SUGGEST SERVICI
An opportunity to vote on the kind of service preferred on the new electric line running between Lawrence and Kansas City will be given the students at K. U. next week, according to W. E. Griffin, agent for the Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway Co.
The demand for special cars will be filled and the students will be given every opportunity to arrange their own schedules. No special cars have been scheduled this week, but from all indications the great students will take advantage of the present schedule to go home for a visit over Sunday.
CROWDED RHETORIC CLASSES
MEET IN FRASER CHAPEI
The freshman classes have been divided into twenty-six sections meeting each hour from 8:30 to 3:50 in the cafeteria or live or more students in each class.
Because of the unusually large enrollment, classes in freshman rhetoric are meeting in Fraser chapel today. More than 650 are enrolled in rhetoric, practically every class having more than the maximum number of students which the instructor can effectively care for.
The Board of Administration me
this morning in the Chancellor's
office. Routine business connected with
opening of school occupied attention.
Board of Administration Meets
Moonlight Murphy of Kansas City is a group of the Bota house for the remake of *The Lost Boy*.
HOLD LONG PRACTICE
Report
Coach
Regrets That Only Thirty-two Men Repent
TRY
FORWARD PASSES
Formations and Serimimages Occupy Time of Players
Thirty-seven varsity football men worked out yesterday in the longest football practice of the season. Practice began at 2 o'clock and continued four hours. It was a hot, tired, winded bunch of players who took their showers in Hamilton Hall after the last scrimmage—but it was a happy bunch. Prospects for a "stream team" have not been so good in years.
"Sixty-five men eligible for varsity competition have checked out suits," Coach Beau Olcott said yesterday afternoon. "Of the sixty-five, an average of thirty-two are reporting daily for practice. I want more men, however. Nebraska has seven teams of varsity men on the field every day; and Kansas could do so." The team he played football would check out suits and come out for practice."
kick-off on games practice
After three hours of preliminary training, two varsity teams were pitted against each other for a forty-five minute scrimmage. Formations with which the men had been experimenting were put into actual practice, and Coach Oleo reports the results as "extraordinarily satisfactory."
The work-out began yesterday with practice in kicking off, in catching punts, and in working out back-field formations to be used with the forward pass. Coach Oleont directed the punting and kicking-off work, Coach Clark worked with the men who were presiding formations.
Practice will take place every day
*\erase at two o'clock.*
HOLDS FIRST SMOKER
Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity En
tertained Many Junior Laws
Last Night
One hundred men, mostly junior laws, were informally entertained at the home of the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity last night in their first meeting. The laws it "get-Together Night" for the first year law men and the members of the Phi Alpha Delta. The president of the fraternity reported today that it was one of the leaders who markers the organization has ever held.
Chancellor Frank Strong, a loyal member of the fraternity, was present and made a splendid talk to the men on "Life from the Legal Point of View", and the hearty response given him by the men present was addled. The loyal to the "Profession" and to the Chancellor and to the University.
The P. A. D. men unanimously agreed that the junior laws this year are much better than the usual run. Several alumni were present to add "ppp" to the effort of the chapter to get the juniors acquainted.
Under the influence of "good music and plenty of smokes" conversation "flowed freely" and everyone got acquainted. The affair closed with the singing of the "Crimson and the Blue" and "Rock Chalk". Refreshments of coffee, doughnuts and apples were served.
University Women's Association Gives Party Tomorrow Night
DON'T FEEL HOMESICK
HELD AT ROBINSON GYM
All Invited to Enjoy the Annual Affair Together
The All-University party will begin at eight o'clock Saturday night in Robinson Gymnasium following the annual dinner of the Y. M. C. A. Al first it was thought that the two affairs would conflict, but now the plans are made to meet the mum. The University will have plenty of time to attend both parties.
Mrs. Frank Strong, president of the University Women's Association, is especially anxious that all people identified with K. U. in any way will attend and wishes to assure all that it be a dress affair, but very informal.
The University Women's Association is composed of the women of the faculty and wives of faculty members. The organization has had charge of the get-acquainted party for years and dates back to the time when the meeting was limited to women attending the University and took the form of a ten. But they soon saw the great opportunity in giving an affair which every one could attend, and it met with one another and created the currents. Refreshments are to be served and one of the features of the evening is that there will be no long talks, but every one will have an equal chance for conversation.
START CROSS COUNTRY
Five-Mile Runners Will Work Out For First Time Monday
Lillian Leis First Student Here
Cross country activity will begin Monday afternoon at four o'clock when candidates for the squad will meet at Robinson Gymnasium with Captain Avery Archer, a schedler who will report. Captain Stalter, Everett Groene, and Floyd Welsh, a promising freshman last year, are the only experienced men who are expected to do report. "Freshmen who have done cross country training can become Monday afternoon," Stateler told a Kansan reporter this morning. Stateler, Groene, and Welsh will go the entire five miles Monday, as all three men have kept in condition this week. "Orcid will they take a slow pout to the Country Club; then eastward to Missouri Street along the country road; and finally, southward along the pavement on Missouri Street to Mc
Lillian Ross Leis, the first student to enroll in the University of Kansas, is living at 1101 Louisiana Street and is just as interested in the affairs of the University as she was 50 years ago.
Rollkey, who won the cross country race last November at the Nebraska meet, was named for his sound this year. “We’re saving Free for indoor week and for the outdoor meets next spring” is Coach W. O. Hamilton’s statement in regard to the
Freshmen who report Friday will be sent out for a jog on the country road.
Three contests of major importance, and several others of minor importance will be participated in by Kansas cross country athletes this year—the Missouri Valley meet, at the Kansas-Nebraska game in Lincoln, the western conference meet at Chicago, and the K. C. A. C. invitation meet.
Bertha Smith, e19, of Kansas City is spending the week-end kt the Alpha City
The first provisions made by the legislature for a state university were that there should be two teachers and one student, and one for women; they were to have different instructors and occupy different buildings. However, these arrangements were necessary and appeared first for admittance.
The list of subjects offered differ greatly from those offered today. Mrs. Leis studied Modern Geography, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Latin, and French.
Mrs. Leis's father, George Leis, was a nephew of Professor Rice, a member of the first faculty of K. U. She went to him to talk about her entrance and under him she took an oral examination. As she signed her name on the enrollment book he said, "In after years she will be in school." were the first person to enroll in the University of Kansas."
In 1866 board was $4.00 per week, as it is now but the matriculation fee was $30.00 instead of the present $10.00 and there was no hospital fee.
M'CANDLESS RESIGNS
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
J. C. McCandless, for several years leader of the K. U. band and director of the orchestra, has resigned the latter position on account of having too much work with the two organizations.
Mr. McCandless has been with the orchestra for several years and his work has always been popular with audiences in body. He will remain as band leader.
Prof. W. S. Morse of the School of Fine Arts will succeed Mr. McCandless as director of the orchestra. He has been with the University for eight years as professor of violin.
Professor Morse studied in Brussels, Belgium, for three years under Carl Thompson, and has done orchestral work in Europe. He also assistant concert master of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra and is an experienced orchestra director.
GIVE FIRST Y. W. TEA
Advisory Board Entertains University Women at Strong Home Today
The first and the largest of the toes given by the advisory board of the Y. W. C. A. for all the women of the University is being held this afternoon at a home of Mrs. Frank from 1345 am, from three to five-thirty o'clock.
The purpose of the numerous teas given at the beginning of the school year is to foster acquaintance between students and freshmen. "Big Sisters" accompany their "Little Sisters" on all such occasions. The new students have the opportunity of meeting many of the faculty women who are on the receiving line with the advisory board, including Mrs. W. P. Johnson, Mrs. P. Walker, Mrs. Eustace Brown, Dr. Grace Charles, Miss Helen G. Jones, Mrs. Arthur Terrill, Miss Esther Swenson, Mrs. Arvin Olin, and Mrs. B. P. Young. Cabinet members of the AAC are also assisting. Over two hundred guests at some time during the afternoon according to Miss Ann Gittins,
Over two hundred women will be guests at some time during the afternoon according to Miss Anne Gittins, secretary of the Y. W. C. A.
BEGIN RELIGIOUS WORK
The School of Religion, the latest edition of what was called Sunday School, when we were children, will open for enrollment next Sunday. School is a faculty unity consisting of the heads of the three departments and their assistants.
School of Religion Begins Registration Sunday Morning
Dean Kelly, of the School of Education is the director of the School of Religion, and head of the department of Religious Pedagogy. Dean Blackmar, of the Graduate School, is the director of the department of religious sociology. Mr. Garrison Thompson, student pastor, is the head of the department of English Bible.
Credit will be given to those completing any of the courses offered Students of the School of Religion or college of the college morning at nine o'clock at the First Methodist Church on the corner of Tenth and Vermont streets. All students and all others who have no church affiliation are urged to enroll by Mr. Thompson.
AGGIES FOOTBALL TEAM GETS EARLY PRACTICE
Manhattan. Sept. 14--Football practice started early this week at the Kansas State Agricultural College under the direction of Bert Barnes, captain. Ten men were in the regulation togs Tuesday, and the number is being increased materially each day.
Adolph "Germany" Schultz, the new coach, has arrived, and nearly fifty men are expected to be on hand for the first official practice tomorrow.
Alpha Chi Line Party
POLITICS WAXES WARM
The Alpha Chi Omega worey gave a line party yesterday afternoon at the Varsity for "The Prince Chap" Fifteen guests were present.
Sig Phi Dance
Sigma Phi Sigma entertained its pledges last night at Eagles' Hall with an informal dance. About thirty-five couples attended including the following out of town people: Mr. Kramer, Grace Bene; Mr. Joseph Campbell, Spokena; Mr. Roy Prugh, Kansas City, Mo.; Miss Laura Auguston.
Fifteen hundred University students are expected at the different student mixers to be held at eight o'clock tonight at the following churches: Episcopal, Methodist, Christian, Congregational, Lutheran, Baptist, United Brethren and Presbyterian.
Last year by actual count 1380 stu dents attended these mixers.
Politicians Commence to Stir Fires For Fall Election
THE BIG ANNUAL SCRAP
Balloting Takes Place Sept. 29—To Shut Out Fraud
NEXT TWO WEEKS LIVELY
Officers to be elected include the presidents, vice presidents, secretaries and treasurers of the four classes. In addition the Sophomores will elect a hop manager and the juniors two prom managers, and an editor and business manager for the 1918 Jayhawk.
NEXT TWO WEEKS LIVELY
Naturally the next two weeks will be tactical ones for the politicians, both men and women. Tickets will be announced. Mount Orcad will be plastered with signs. Secretaryships on the tickets will be awarded to the women. Such things are foregone conclusions.
K. U. politicians are getting busy. Only two weeks remain before the annual drama of "Copping the Grapes" will be enacted again on Mount Oread. The Student Council election rules provide for the annual spring or third Friday of the school year—which is September 29 in this instance.
There are two annual elections at K. U., one coming in May. But it is in the fall election where the most excitement is aroused. The offices at stake amount to more, with the exception of the presidency of the Student Council, which is decided in the spring.
Students at K. U. last year remember the election scandal as an aftermath of the voting. Seniors were caught voting as sophomores and freshmen as seniors. As a result, several students lost their privileges as "student citizens" by action of the student council.
NO SCANALH THIS YEAR
This year there will be clear supervision during the Australian ballot system will be in vogue. There are definite eligibility rules. In the college, all students having credit for 20 hours shall vote as sophomores; all having 50 hours, as juniors and all having 80 hours as seniors. All of hours are class eligibility varies somewhat in different schools.
The rules of the Student Council provide that any person guilty of illegal voting shall be punished, the boys by the Student Council and the girls by the Women's Student Council. The Association rules further provide that all candidates for office must qualify by securing on a petition the names of twenty-five persons eligible to vote for them, endorsing their candidacy. The president of the Student Council is the president of the Student Council by the Tuesday preceding election.
As Homer "Junk" Herriott, president of the Student Council, is going to work in California during the first semester, it is probable that the election will be supervised by Paul Greaver, vice president.
STRAYER WILL LECTURE
Would Aid State Educational
Work
Dr. George D. Strayer, head of the work in school administration at Columbia University, will be in Kansas some time during January for a series of lectures on topics in the sciences of the University Extension Division. He will conduct some special educational lectures in Kansas City, Kans., Chanute and Neodesha. He plans to give one public lecture in Chicago and conferences with groups of teachers.
According to Dean F. F. Kelly, of the School of Education, Dr. Strayer is one of the recognized leaders of education in the United States. He has conducted some of the most important city school surveys that have been conducted on national standing having learned in all parts of the country.
F. R. Hamilton, head of the Extension Division, does not believe that Dr. Strayer will come to the University and the exact date of his coming to the university has not been announced. He will probably spend several days in each place.
The Chi Omega sorority are giving their exclusive party today between the hours of two and eight o'clock. An eight course dinner will be served with six o'clock dessert cake will be used in the decorations and the favors will be corsage bouquets of roses. There will be music during the dinner.
The Achoh sorority gave a dinner at the Country Club last night as their exclusive party. The colors used in the decorations were pink and white, and they were paired with a Japanese tea at the chapter house, 1336 Vermont Street.