UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV
NUMBER
SORORITIES RUSH MANY
Girls' Greek Societies Compete For Memberships This
NAME PLEDGES EARLY
During Week
All Houses Are Giving Parties During Week
Rush week for the sororites is just now at its height. According to the new Pan-Hellenic ruling adopted last year the sororites will not pledge until next Monday night. This shortens the rushing season to a week instead of ten days as was formerly required by the Greek constitution. The women find a bunch of food company manners and smiles quite long enough and are favorable to the new rule.
ENTERTAIN RUSHEES
The sorestories are entertaining more than the usual amount of rushes this year and everyone is quite cheerful about the results for a good cause of plagues.
While the soviocorps do not exactly resort to the methods that the men use in rushing, some very clever "stunts" are employed to addition to the parties that are given.
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
The social affairs announced today are; Achoth entertained with their exclusive party Wednesday evening. This was a dinner at the Country Club. Tonight they will give a bridge dinner at the Achoth house.
Alpha Chi Omega the hostesses for a bridge and dinner party Wednesday afternoon and evening at the home of Gertrude LaCruz, 1301 Kentucky Street. Friday evening the exclusive will be given at Eagle Hall.
Alpha Delta Pi entertained with a dinner Wednesday evening and will give their exclusive party Saturday from two to eight o'clock.
Chi Omega will entertain with
their win from two to eight
o'clock Friday.
Alba Xi Delta, gave a Blue Bird luncheon and bridge party Wednesday afternoon and evening. Miss Margaret Laing, of Russell, won the prize, a box of gilt edge correspondence cards. Tonight a dinner with cabaret entertainment will be given, and Friides their exclusive from 12:30 to 8 p.m.
Kappa Kappa Gamma were the hostesses for a Rose breakfast Wednesday morning and a dinner the same evening. Friday at eight o'clock is the time for the beginning of their exclusive party.
Kappa Alpha Theta gave a lunch
eat at the house and a chapter at
the Wilhelmenia home Wednesday
afternoon. Today from two to eight
o'clock their exclusive party will be
given.
Gamma Phi Beta had a Japanese luncheon and farce Wednesday afternoon, followed by a picnic supper. Tonight from eight to twelve they will entertain with their exclusive party.
Phi Beta Pha gave their exclusive yesterday at 1945 Louisiana street at the home of Charline Smith. Tonight a dinner is given at the house
TO DISTRIBUTE "K" BOOKS
Sigma Kappa will entertain with their exclusive from two to eight o'clock today. It is an Orpheum and a dinner party.
Free to Men—Upperclass Women Must Buy Them
The "K" books are out!
Next to the student directories the little hand book put out by the Y. M. C. A, and the Y. W. C. A, is the most desired and popular book on the Hill.
The current edition of this little source of such information as time tables, a plot of the town of Lawrence, church locations and other interesting things, is bound in black leather stamped with a golden "K" on the top cover.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 14, 1916
The books are free to all men of the University calling at the Y. M. C. A. office, Myers Hall. The press has been slow in printing and the books are limited to 200 a day. Enough orders ordered for the entire enrollment.
The women of the freshman class will receive books free; women of the other classes can obtain them for 10c at the office of Miss Anne Gittens, Secretary of the Y. W. C. A. in Myers Hall.
Board Meets Today
The Board of Administration will meet at the office of Chancellor Frank强, strong management has made of anything more than routine business coming up.
The Alemannia Club entertained with a German party last night at its new home at 23 East Thirteenth Street. The musicians danced occupied the earlier part of the evening followed by a two course supper and informal dancing. A quartet in German paasent costumes served at the opening and appeared in German cabaret.
REGISTRATION AT OREAD.
TODAY AND TOMORROW
Registration at Oread Training School, which opened this morning, has been proceeding at a lively clip, and prospects for a record enrollment in the school continue tomorrow and Saturday, until noon, and classes will begin Monday, September 18. Freshmen in the University who have entered with their current courses are certain subjects are required to make them up in Oread Training School. Enrollment is held there later than at the University in order to allow students to arrange high school work in the regular UiI university courses.
"The equipment of the school and the teaching staff have been increased so that work in every line will be of the highest character," said Hubert W. Nutt, principal of the school, yesterday.
Oread Training School is maintained by the University. It is a university offering student students majoring in pedagogy secure teaching experience there.
Martin, '19, Football Star, Goes to Work to Make Up Defeit
LOSES $100; QUITS K. U.
Deficit
Robert Martin, sophomore in the University of Kansas, withdrew from school today because someone was not mistaken to make by Martin last summer.
Martin traveled as a cashier for the Redpath-Horner chauqua circuit last summer. Early in July when he was at Santa Fe, New Mexico, there were two girls playing with cash he had on hand. One day he was forced to make change rapidly. That night the bill was missing. He remembered only that he had given out several ten dollar bills and thinks that larger bill accidently was among them.
Last week, Martin quit his job and came to Lawrence with the hope of finding work. Today he decided that he would return to his home at Staford, Kans., and earn money to come to school the second semester.
Martin continued his work through the summer, hoping against hope that the missing bill would be returned and he would not have to make good the deficit. With that amount made good, he would have cought to go through school. He particularly wanted to do better, in the chance of making the football eleven. Martin weighs 205 pounds and was a star on the freshman team last year.
Meanwhile, someone in New Mexico is ahead a one hundred dollar bill.
WOMEN'S GYM CLASSES TO WAIT FOR NEW LOCKERS
Regular classes in the department of physical education for women will not begin until further notice owing to the remodeling of the basement of the gymnasium, which is now in progress. Showers and lockers are being rearranged for the convenience of the large number of students.
Freshmen hygiene classes and physical examinations will begin next week. No successor for Dr. Alice Goetz has been appointed and the new professor will be Hazel Pratt and Gladys Elliot, instructors in the department.
Plain Tales from the Hill
Helen Topping, fa'17, is at the Theta teacher for rush week. She will not enroll in classes this year but will enroll in a class on Tuesday to instruct a class in dancing.
John W. Johnson, c17, has returned to complete his course in the department of economics. Johnson says he worked at the Illinois stock to western Kansas farmers.
Madeline Ashton, c'15, is teaching German and French in the garrent hall
Charles B. Dunn and Victor Philipa of the University of Wisconsin, who have been guests at the Delta Tau Delta house here this week are leaving today for Madison, Wisconsin Registration begins at Wisconsin September 18th, and they expect to return in time for rush week there.
"Junk" Herriot, c17, is spending a few days in Lawrence visiting with friends. Junk will not be in school the first semester as he is going to California where he has a position in a Mexican camp.
Alpha Chi Sigma announces the piroging of Samuel C. Johnson, 18 of
The young people of the Trinity Episcopal Church are giving an informal party at the Chapel at Tenth and Vermont Streets, Friday evening at eight o'clock. All members of the church or friends are cordially invited to attend. The party is for the purpose of giving the newcomers and the old members a chance to get acquainted.
STRONG GIVES TALK
Chancellor Speaks at Fi Convocation Tomorrow In Gymnasium
FOR ALL DEPARTMENTS
"A Family Talk" The Subject of Opening Address
The first convocation of the year,
tomorrow morning at 10.30 at Robinson gymnasium, will also be the fifty-first annual opening exercises of the University. The address of the
will be given by Glancaster
Frank Strong.
"A Family Talk" is what the chancellor calls the remarks he is going to make to the students. It will be an informal speech, with emphasis on things of interest to university students locally and with mention of things of general interest to college men and women.
"A FAMILY TALK"
As is used with the attendance at the initial University convocations, a crowd that will fill the gym is expected tomorrow morning. Programs are being printed today, which will contain all the songs and responsive readings. The students will occupy the first floor and gallery of the gym and seats will be reserved for them to be on the platform. The faculty will meet at the Administration building and march to the gym in a body.
The program, for the morning i.
GET THERE EARLY
Doxology.
Responsive Reading
Announcements
Address by Chancellor Frank
Song "America."
"Crimson and the Blue."
FRATS KEEP UP PLEDGING
Drastic Measures Employed By Greeks To Get Freshmen
Pledging by the fraternities continued yesterday and today with unabated competition. There were more cases of "kidnapping". One youth was invited off a train at a station out of Lawrence and brought here in an automobile by representatives of one fraternity, while another bench waited the arrival of the freshman at the Lawrence station.
The names of additional pledges secured by the Greeks include several over whom there was some interesting debate.
Additional pledges announced by the fraternities this morning, in
Alpha Tau Omega—Campbell of Iola
Beta Theta Pi—Harold Spencer,
Pittsburgh; Charles Nettels and
George Toppel of Topper; Harold
Schmidt, Leavenworth; Don
Weltz, Barvilleville.
Delta Tau Delta—Gail Wilson, Beloit
Phi Gamma Kappa, George Rourke, Topeka,
Lamar Delta, Theta—Howard Smith,
Wichita; Rudolph Shirk, Pittsburg;
Fred Jenkins, Kansas City; Charles
Boughton,ola; Beni Smith, Kansas
City; John Monteith, Kansas City;
Steve Miller, Kansas City; Joe
Schwartz, Kansas City, Mo; Joe
Parham, Kansas City.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon—Joe Atha Dick Alsop and "Dingie" Marshall Kansas City; "Skid" Howden, Skidmore Mo.
Phi Gamma Delta—Art Anderson,
protegee, Georges Rouke, Tomika.
The annual Y. M. C. A. walk around planned for the purpose of distributing the K books to the freshmen at their rooms will not be held until some time before the semester begins, as they are obtained in sufficient numbers from the printer to make the walk worth while. However, those who desire books sooner may receive them by calling the secretary or leaving their name and address with the secretary.
Sigma  Nu—Tom Crawford, Topka; Clearner Bennett, Kansas City
Sigma Chi- Vic Blakely and Fred Rigby, Topeka.
Not Enough Books
Council Elects Fischer
The Senior Council of the Daily Kansas met today in the Journalism Building and elected the following persons to take charge of the Daily Kansas for the first month: Editor-in-Chief, John Hulley; Editor-Edwin Hullinger; Anda't. News Editor, Henry Pegus; and Sporting Editor, Don Davis.
Tryouts for the University band are to be continued this week. Players of cornetts and clarinets are trying for band positions today. Men who can play other instruments are asked to report at Room 502, Fraser Hall, from two to six o'clock tomorrow or Saturday.
MAKES CLAIM GOOD
Three Thousand Students Have Already Matriculated Record
ALL SCHOOLS SHOW GAIN
Enrollment Continues as K. U Offers Better Opportunities
The long sought 3000 registration mark at the University of Kansas has at last materialized. With the close of enrollment Wednesday night 2523 attended, the program is in the term and with the summer school enrollment of over 500, the total registration for 1916 passes the 3000 mark with a good margin. At the corresponding time last year the registration fall the fall term barely surpassed 2,000.
COLLEGE IN THE LEAD
All the different schools of the University showed a marked increase in attendance over last year with the College lending with a 200 larger enrollment. Dean Tempin believes that this is a good opportunity counted for with the fact that the school offers better educational opportunities this year than ever, before new courses having been added where required and for them justified the expansion.
Enrollment will be resumed Saturday morning at nine o'clock in the gymnasium. Every student who intends to enroll or make changes in their program of work should be on hand when the doors open at nine o'clock as no definite hours have been set for this work and enrollment will cease when everybody is apparently enrolled. All advisers, serbes and doorkeepers are expected to be in place at nine o'clock to take things up where they were left off Wednesday afternoon in the work of enrollment.
OFFICE OPEN SATURDAY
Y. M. ANNUAL MIXER
PRONOUNCED SUCCESS
The most successful mixer of the year was held last night at the Y. M. C. A. With a get-together affair every night this week, the largest attendance was 217 people and about fifty upper-classmen turned out for the stunts.
The events were well presented and Edmundie Burke with his broomstick and cigar box fiddle started things going. Then followed a tug of war and a pillow fight, followed by comic readings by Lee Smith.
The last thing on the program was the singing of the "Crimson and the Blue," which was taught to the freshmen, along with other Kansas songs and yells. Finally the whole company retired to the open air where they made several dozen watermelons rapidly disappear.
"The success of this mixer makes the banquet Saturday night almost an occasion," he said, as who is working hard on that event. "We have only a few tickets left, and urge every freshman to hurry up and one, as we want every one to be there."
BOOK EXCHANGE THRIVES;
ENGINEERS' BOOKS MINUS
Thirty-five dollars worth of books were sold yesterday at the Student Book Exchange in Fraser Hall. Early this morning over seven hundred books were on hand, with more coming in all the time. A big increase in sales is expected today and tomorrow.
It is impossible to supply the demand for Wooley's Hand Book on Composition and for books for the Engineer courses. The greatest number of books offered for sale come from departments of English and German.
Truth is no more divine when found in the pages of the Bible than when uttered by a pagan. Error is no less to be rejected when it is found in the sources than when it is proclaimed by the infidle. Unitarian Church—Adv.
Kelly Gives Lectures
Dean F. J. Kelly of the School of Education left today for Topeka where he delivered two lectures this afternoon. One was before the Topeka City Institute on City School address to the high school teachers on "Development of Leadership in High School."
Rex Miller, c17, a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and president of the University Y. M. C. A. last year, will leave K. U. this week for Europe to accept a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, England. Out of the seven men competing for the Rhodes Bachelors, four passed and Miller was chosen from the four. He will sail from New York October 3.
Today saw the ending of the so-called "foolishness" so common during the first week of school. From now on classes will claim the major attention of the students—just now it is buying books.
Y. W. K. A. TO GIVE FRIDAY
AFTERNOON TEA FOR WOMEN
Every young woman enrolled in the University is invited to attend the W, Y. C, A. tea to be given Friday afternoon from three to five o'clock at the home of Mrs. Frank Strong, 1345 Louisiana street.
The advisory board of the Y. W. C. A. is giving the affair in order that the young women of the freshman class be acquainted with members of other classes. This annual tea has done much to promote good fellowship and make the Y. W. C. A. one of the major organizations of the University.
The second get-together meeting of the Y. W. C. A. will be the annual freshman frolic, Saturday, September 23, at Robinson Gymnasium. Hasek Hilman, chairman of the secr game entertainment for this party and is expecting a large attendance. Last year 300 took part in the fun.
FROSH TO MIX AT Y. M.
Fledgelings Will Get Acquainted Saturday Night; Dr. Strong to Speak
Freshmen will mix for the first time at Myers Hall Saturday night when the Y. M. C. A. will hold the third annual freshman blowout. Prof Odis H. Burns of the School of Law will be tostmaster. Chancellor Strong, L. K. Hall, state secretary of the University and president of the University Y. M., will speak. A two-course banquet is to be served, for which thirty-five cents will be charged. Tickets for the banquet are being sold over the campus by members of the Y. M., and at Myers Hall. So heavy has the sale been because that all who wish to attend and cannot be accommodated.
An enticing menu has been prepared.
MORE RECKLESS DRIVING
K. U. Student Endangers Passersby; Cop Stops Him
A large touring car, driven by a K. U, student swung east on Seventh Street early this morning. At Massachusetts it pulled to the left side of the street and turned north, barely missing several people. The driver was halted in the middle of the block and threatened with arrest.
"There is too much of this kind of driving among the students," began the officer, "and I intend to make an example of you."
The student first plead ignorance of the traffic rules. When these were explained to him, he promised obedience in the future.
"Besides I couldn't pay a fine to day," he said. "I have barely enough money to buy books and I won't get away from home until the first of the month."
The policeman agreed that it was a bad position and turned the driver loose with a warning, which was lost as the student drove slowly away, thinking of nothing but his narrow escape.
PATTerson WONT MEET
CLASSES UNTIL MONDAY
Prof. D. L. Patterson, of the department of history, will be unable to meet his classes until Monday, according to an announcement made by the department on Friday, the head of the department. "Professor Patterson made a flying trip to France after the first term of the summer session," said Professor Oddie Miller, who was delayed for the return trip, though he left Bordeaux September 2.
"He reached New York Wednesday to be here in time for classes. Monday."
Professor Patterson has a course in Medieval History, at 8:30; Medieval Culture, at 9:30; Greek History, at 10:30.
RHODES SCHOLARSHIP EXAMS
TO BE HELD OCTOBER 3 AND
**
Examination for the 1918 Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford will be held at the University on Tuesday and Wednesday, 24th February. Examination for the scholarship will be open during the year of 1917. This announcement was received at the office of Chancellor Frank Strong to celebrate his 75th anniversary of examination have been received.
Competitors must be citizens of the United States between nineteen and twenty-five years of age and must, before the date of their entry at Oxford, have completed at least two years' work at some degree-granting American university or college state committee of action chooses the scholar from among those who have passed the examination. All applications for this examination should be made to Chancellor Strong.
CHARLIE LIKES K. U.
Republican Nominee Fairbanks Visits University Today
CROWD PACKS BOWERSOCK
Candidate Arraigns Democrats;
Is Given Ovation
Charles Warren Fairbanks.
"I send my heartiest greetings and best wishes to the young men and women of the University of Kansas; to its faculty;—and to its football team."
Speaking in a tone of voice that indicated great hoarseness and buried beneath an avalanche of clothes, prescribed by his private physician to protect the Republican nominee from the inroads of Mr. Cold and Sorethroat, former Vice-President Charles Warren Fairbanks said this morning while touring the campus in an autumn party. "The University of Kansas is a school distinctive of the Great Middle West. Its virility, vigor, and democracy is truly representative of the Inland Empire, lying down the Mississippi river." Speaking of the campus, the Indiana Senator declared, "The layout of the grounds and the arrangement of the buildings within the twin valleys from your main buildings is simply magnificent, in fact I have yet to see one that has more natural beauty and grandeur of scenery."
After visiting with the Chancellor, the Vice-Presidential party left for Baldwin where Mr. Fairbairn spoke at the University of Baker University, Baldwin high school, and the various grade schools, Following the Baldwin address, the party returned to Lawrence where the president was at 2 o'clock at the Rowersock Theatre.
The Fairbanks party included:
Charles Warren Fairbanks, Richard Fairbanks, Richard Lowther, Jos. B. Keealing, all of Indianapolis, Ind.; D. W. Mulvane, J. N. Dolley, A. W. Smith, Chas. Session, Topeka; G. M. Marikham, Baldwin; Chas. Marikham, Baldwin; Cliff Matson, representatives of the Topeka State Journal and Topeka Daily Capital.
"Return to Republican Prosperity”-Fairbanks
An audience, which filled the lower floor and the entire balcony of the Bowersock Theater, heard Charles Warren Fairbanks deliver his speech in Lawrence this afternoon. Mr. Fairbanks was introduced by J. D. Bowersock, long a Republican worker in Douglas County, who styled the speaker as "the next voice on the stage." The statement was greeted warmly, and Mr. Fairbanks was given an ovation as he rose to speak.
The candidate opened his address with words of greeting to his audience both men and women; and after the meeting he decided to secure a new postoffice building for Lawrence, began a stirring arraignment of the Democratic party. "We have tried Democracy for four decades," he remarks, "and Democracy has tried us."
Following the address, Mr. Fairbanks was taken to the Phi Gamma Delta house, of which traternity he is a member, for a short call. His party was located in their car at 3:30 Lafayette. The audience will speak in Kansas City tonight.
The audience obviously sympathetic, cheered the speaker, and then resolved into silence as Mr. Pairbanks began a serious discussion of the political issue at stake in the present campaign. "We are not interested in grass," the speaker told the audience. "This country must return to that solidness which characterized it when the Republicans were last in power." A criticism of the Democratic "one plea for all" administration followed. He closed his address with a plea for a business administration.
COMMUNITY SINGS TO
CONTINUE THIS FALL
The Community Sings held every week of the Summer Session will be continued this fall, Dean Butler said this morning. The first will be in Fraser Chapel. The date has not been fixed as yet. The University Band will play an accompaniment for the songs.
"I was well pleased with the interest the student took in the Sings last summer," said Dean Butter. "But I wonder if the student falls and larger attendance owing to the leisure which the fall student has for entertainment. The songs will all be familiar to everyone. Both students were urged to come and enjoy the Sings."
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