UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
HAVE TWO A MONTH
Semi Monthly Convocations Are Planned For This Year
TO BE "FAMILY AFFAIRS"
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 13, 1916.
Songs, Cheers, Speeches, and Music Make Up Program
NUMBER 32
The adoption of a plan for two All - University convocations a month was announced this morning by Chancellor Frank Strong. "It has seemed to me that one convoitation monthly, as was the plan last year, is not enough to bring about a 'family' feeling among the students of the University." Doctor Strong said in discussing the new plan, "and I have decided that convoction every two weeks is just the thing we need.
"The semi-monthly convocations will not be at all formal. We want songs and cheers and speeches and music—everything that will make the occasions 'family affairs.' We shall secure speakers from the student body and from our own faculty; and musicians from our own School of Fine Arts. If big men in the state visit the University,we shall ask them to talk to us; and occasionally, we may come outside the state. On the whole, however, I want the convocations to be informal family affairs."
According to Doctor Strong, the convocations will probably take an hour and a half, but at same hour. Ten-thirty o'clock has been a popular hour in the past.
PLANNING ADDRESS
Plans are almost completed for the annual open address to the students, which Doctor Strong will make Friday morning at ten o'clock in Robinson Gymnasium; but no announcements will be made until tomorrow, according to Miss Minnie Moody, secretary to the chancellor.
JOHN M. WAS BUSY
Superintendent of Buildings Made Many Repairs During Summer
John M. Shea, superintendent of grounds and buildings, was one official connected with the University who did not take a vacation this summer. Instead, he spent three long days digging the many repairs which were made in the buildings on the campus, preparatory to the opening of classes this fall. Rooms were remodeled and redecorated; new lighting and ventilating systems were installed; a no walk was laid and a path was created which is used as a conduit for light, heat, and water pipes was practically rebuilt.
One of the most conspicuous improvements on the cast end of the building is the space between the Medic Building and Bloss Hall. The walk was built last July.
"The tunnel job kept us busy nearly all summer," said Mr. Shea Saturday. "A portion of the tunnel about 300 feet long which is situated just south and west of Fowler Shops, pipes, wires, heating pipes, sweater channels, and water pipes are all laid in this tunnel, and it is easy to imagine the amount of work necessary to install a complete set of new pipes in their
The last of the heretofore vacant unfinished rooms in Fraser Hall have been fitted up as class rooms; and there is now no building on the campus where additional class room space can be found. When more rooms are needed, new buildings will have to be built.
Two rooms were finished in Fraser One, a large room in the north tower of the building, will be used as a class room. The other, in the basement, will be used by Dr. Ida H. Hyde as a laboratory.
Students who have protested against foul in Fraser Hall chapel will have no further cause for complaint since the installation of a new ventilating system there. Several forty-ight-inch windows with vents leading to the roof, will provide a complete change of air in the chapel every fifteen minutes.
IMPROVEMENT IN SPOONER
IMPROVEMENT IN SPOONER
The basement of Spooner Library has been entirely reprinted. Twenty-five light fixtures, of the type used in the library, were installed in the seminar rooms. New lights were also placed in Blake Hall on the second floor; and the entire building was rewired in conduit.
That portion of the department of botany which has heretofore been on the second floor of Snow Hall has been moved to the first floor. New partitions were built, and the whole first floor rearranged. The rooms by the department will be used by the department of bacteriology.
Improvements on the west end of
the campus were confined to Robinson Gymnasium and Marvin Hall. The women's side of the Gym was completely overhauled, rearranged, and repainted. New showers, wash rooms and dressing rooms were built.
BIG LIBRARY IN MARVIN
The library in Marvin Hall was considerably enlarged, as the number of books owned by the School of Engineering had become too great for the space in which they were kept. The engineering library is now the largest departmental library on the campus.
The installation of two new boilers at the heating plant, in the place of three old ones which were thrown away as unit furnaces for insurance purposes, led to the winter. It is the proud bonet of Mr. Shea that since he took charge of the University heating plant, no class has ever been dismissed because of a n cold classroom.
Perhaps the improvements herein named might keep an ordinary man busy for three months; but Mr. Shea found time "in between times" to slip down to Olathe and lay 2800 square feet of cement floor at the State School for the Deaf. Mr. Shea was employed by the Board of Administration to bid every contractor," he told a reporter for the Kansan Saturday, "and said the state about twenty-eight per cent on the job."
Plain Tales from the Hill
C. L. Butcher, who was a freshman in 1914, is back on the Hill for work after a year on the "Larned Tiller and Toler."
James Winchester, a graduate of the Fort Hays Normal School, gave up a position with a railroad construction company in Utah in order to enroll in te apartment of journalism here.
Jack Kistler, c19, is back on the Hill this year after spending the summer in a printing office at his home at Alta Vista. He will enter the department of journalism this year.
Chas, Hagenbuch, a graduate of last year, enrolled for graduate work Tuesday afternoon. He just returned from Chicago where he represented the Kansas chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the honorary engineering fraternity.
Oscar Brownlee, c17, is back and reports a very pleasant summer. He spent the vacation on his farm near Stafford.
Theodore Richter, c18, is back on
the summer at his home at Alma.
Warren Wattles, c'18, is on the Hill all ready for a good year, he saws into a piece of the summer at Stafford School, where he sat at the home of Oscar Brownlee.
Ray Runion of Arcadia has enrolled in the University and is planning to specialize in journalism. He will attend daily at Pittsburg for the last year.
Leonard Calendar of Kansas City is intending to enter the University again after an absence of one year. He has been working in his father's printing establishment and in a bank school life again have him in its toils.
Some Kappa Kappa Gamma alumni back for rushing are: Margaree Hughes, Mrs. Billie Norris, Helen Hurst and Mrs. Lee Judy, of Kansas City; Ruth Horton, of Iola, and Dorothy Vant of St. Joseph, Mo.
Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle B. Johnson are now making their home at 605 Ohio street. Mr. Johnson, a Phi Delta Theta, graduated at the University of Notre Dame, and Mrs. Johnson, who was Loyls Kollins, was a Chi Omega there.
Misses Estelle Stone and Grace Pearse from the Missouri chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma are visiting a local chapter house here for the week.
"Moonlight" Murphy, Carl Anderson, Roy Adams and Delmar Buckley of Kansas City, Mo., Paul Pulliam Lyons, Lester and Garrison Gillespie of Tulsa, Okla., and Buster Brown, of Atchison, are a few of the Beta Theta Pi alumni who have returned for this week.
Richard Odel Smith, a Beta of Independence, who was enrolled in the University year before last, has defended his thesis. In the completion of his college course.
The Pi Beta Phi alumni back for rushing a game: Constance Fennel, Dot Ellott, Betty Brown, Edith Cobbison all of Kansas City, Kia; Ethel Frith, Natalie Foster, Larry Stratee Dimond, of Wichita; and Winifred Mattocks, of Kansas City, Mo.
The Delta Tau Delta alumni back or rushing are: William Gillette, Kingman, Kas.; Elmer Whitney, leastanton, Kas.; Jimmie Eggleston, 15, Parsons, Kas.; Vern Minor, c'12 opkea.
FAIRBANKS WILL SPEAK
Republican Nominee for Vice President to Unfurl G. O. P.
Banner in Lawrence
COLLEGE
VISITS
baker University to Hear Candidate Tomorrow
Charles W. Fairbanks, Ex-vice president of the United States and Republican candidate for that office, will speak at the Bowersock Theatre at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Within two weeks Lawrence will have heard both Republican candidates. He will dress from the rear of his train. President Wilson was in Lawrence last winter.
Mr. Fairbanks will have a busy day tomorrow. In the morning he will speak at Baldwin before the students of Baker University. From Lawrence he will go to Kansas City, Kansas to speak there in the evening.
The Baldwin address will be on the occasion of the opening of Baker University. Mr. Fairbanks received the degree of LL. D. from the Methodist institution in 1963 and he is an ardent Methodist.
...the subject has been announced for the address tomorrow, but it is expected that he will touch on the tattu of the Democratic administration.
J. D. Bowersock, who was a member of Congress when Mr. Fairbanks was Vice-President, will preside at the meeting. Col. E. C. Little, Republican candidate for Congressman from North Carolina, will also be in Lawrence tomorrow.
Mr. Fairbanks was the twenty-sixth Vice-President of the United States. His term was during the Roosevelt administration from 1905-1909. He was candidate for Vice-President in 1912. His home is Indianapolis, Ind.
DR. NAISMITH RETURNS
Says Kansas Boys on Mexican Border Are a Happy
Lot
"All's well along the Border," says Dr. Naismith, Captain Chaplain of the First Kansas Infantry, who returned to Lawrence this morning after spending the summer with his regiment, in Texas.
"The boys are all anxious to get back for school, but outside of that they are happy and contented. Nobody knows just when they will be able to finish their abilities; They will either be here by October or will stay all winter."
The overland trip from El Paso to San Antonio was a wonderful experience for the men, in Dr. Naismith's estimation, but another trip has been planned which will give them a better idea of real soldering. They are at the Alamo and Santa Fe Saturday and hike to Austin. This is by no means a trifling undertaking and will test out the true metal of the "Brookies."
"The strict discipline the men undergo," says Dr. Naismith, "is the finest training in the world for them. It is good to see follows who have worked down and dig ditches, and do it whole-heartedly, too."
The director of physical education went on to say that the K, U. men are all well and that camp life seems to agree with them. As for himself, Dr. Naismith has lost eleven pounds not appear to be looking for it.
"I don't care if I never find it again," he added.
A meeting for the purpose of organizing a dramatic club will be held this evening at the Unitarian Church of San Antonio. Students organized for the study and presentation of the modern drama. Members of the faculty and students of the University are invited to join the club. For the year will be elected tonight.
Robert Simpson, University of Missouri star sprinter and hurdler is to be sent with several other American athletes. He will mark the mark to compete with athletes these nations. He will run at Stockholm, Christiana and Copenhagen in October. Simpson holds the world's fourth-best yard high hurdles. His time is 14.3-5.
Organize Dramatic Tonight.
Simpson Goes Abroad
Rhetoric Classes Begin Friday
The first meetings of College Rhetoric I classes will be held in Fraser chapel Friday, September 15. Assignment to sections will be announced and information concerning changes in class rooms will be given.
Harry Crum, c'17, who left school last spring to take a position with the Wichita Natural Gas Co., will be in school again this year. His work this summer has taken him through Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Texas
GREEKS NAME PLEDGES
Fraternities Announce Men Chosen Last Night
Freshmen Called Best Pick In
MUCH STRIVING FOR MEN
Pledge night yielded a crop of ninety freshmen for K. U. fraternities. Pledging started at 10 o'clock in the morning and did not dawn as has been the case in others whose new rule brought new complications, such as divided "dates" for the night. The ninety names announced this morning correspond only a partial list, but by the end of the month marrow there will be a let-up with the starting of classes but fraternity houses generally will be on company manners during the entire first week
CLIMAX REACHED
Last night furnished the climax for pledge week. Tuesday night "dates" are considered the best because they afford fraternities first opportunity to "bid" the men they choose. The competition resulted in the usual number of upsets — one Greek student and one Greek member that most of his most likely "hit" had been kidnapped in an automobile and hidden in a fraternity house not his own until pledge time when the whole chapter argued him into accepting a bid. It was some of the old time "rough stuff" made famous by George Fitch, and repeated at the Agricultural college when four Greek letter organizations engaged in a wild warfare for a track wonder named Collier.
GOOD MEN CALLED
K. U. fraternity men generally agree that the freshmen this year are much better than the usual run, Alumni have returned in large numbers to add "pup" to the efforts of the chapters to pop up. One organization has placed them during the first week, had eleven bids accepted by 11 o'clock last night. The names of the pledges announced, follow:
Acacia -Crosby Deacon, Topeka
Afred B. Richmond Lucas; A. A.
Winchester, Hays; A. E. Welker,
Larissa Troup; A. Group, Logan
Burtion, E. Smith, Martin
Alpha Tau Omega--Phil Dodd deridge, Lawrence; Dix Randall, Lawrence; Gerald Sterrett, Lawrence; Earl Ferguson, Garnett; Harold Mason, Lawrence; Obert Machamear, Kansas City, Mo.; Roy Paramore, Larned; Stale Stupel, Preston; Fred Holkum, Canyon City.
Beta Theta Pi—Marion Arnold, Emporia; Bryan Murphy, Leavenworth; Ted Pendleton, Lawrence; Paul Pulliam, Lyons; Deane Mallott, Abilene; Harold Stanley, Linneus, Mo.
Delta Tau Delta—George Winn, Marqueette, Fred Leach, Arkansas City; Franklin Boon, Arkansas City; James J. Knowles, Kingman; Victor Beck, Kingman; Max Krugeen, Atchison; John Berford, Wellsville.
Kappa Sigma—Floyd Peacock,
Stafford; Willard Idol, Robinson;
Elbert Smith, Ellinwood; Philip
Dane, Arkansas City; Paul McFarland,
Lavrence; Lowell Whitle. Edgerton;
Robert Abington, Fort Scott;
George Heim, Ellinwood; Eugene
Cook, Cherryvale.
Kanzz—C. A. Sutton, Parsons;
Charles Wallsee, Winfield; Russell
Miller, Winfield; Don Gardner, Winfield; Ray Swarner, Coldwater; Mortimer Doshaugh, Cedarvale; Francis Fuhr, Meade.
Phi  Gamma  Delta—Mason Bois, Independence; Gaylord Gorrill, Lawrence; Gene. Carter, Parsons; Eben Mitchell, Lawrence; North Wright, Aitchison; Dwight Hardman, Phil linsburg.
Phi Kappa Pesi- Russell Evans William Lengerman, B. R. Stevens, all of Kansas City, Mo., J. A Weightman, Topeka; E. E. Hook Wichita; R. C. Farrel, Pratt; Marvin GoodJohn, Leavenworth; Vivian Bierer, Hiwatha; Hilton Graham, Hiwatha.
Pi Upsilon—Brance Jackson, Barnard; Ernest A. Ryan, Giraud; Floyd Ross, Sterling; Stewart Ludlow, Kansas City, Mo.; Carl Bressem, Sabeth; Lee Altland, Sterling; Cyril L. Palmer, Kansas City, Mo.
Pi Kappa Alphn-Wilburn Bower
soock, Lawrence; Xenia Ayers, Almena;
Glen Ayers, Almena; Glen
Grav, Protection.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon—Warren Davis, Cottonwood Falls; Howard Hilton, Cottonwood Falls; Marshall Haddock, Kansas City, Mo.; John Paul Jones, Kansas City, Mo.; Evan Bawne, Kansas City, Mo.; Evan Gray, Richard Stanford, Burdenn; Michael Latta, Wichita; Josiah Williams, Clay Center.
Sigma Chi—Thomas Dewey, Topeka; Roy Gress, Lawrence; Webb Wilson, Horton; Clinton Lane, St. Marys; Lewis Foster, Kansas City, Mo.; Charles McPherson, Wichita; Ralph Sentney, Hutchinson; Archie Hull, Joln; Will Helmers, Leavenworth; James Weaver, Belleville.
Sigma Nu—Victor Woodward, Delphos; Leo Francisco, Lawrence; Vernon; Blackwell, Okla.; Earl youngmayer, Wichita; Dean Nutting, Russell.
Sigma Phi Sigma--E. Clark Tucker, Russell Stevens, Howard Chip, Robert K. Walters, Allenter Merrill Spencer, Great Bend
PLAYERS FOR UNIVERSITY
BAND WANTED AT ONCE
The University band is already making plans for the year. Tryouts for cornet and clarinet players will be held in Room 502, Fraser Hall, from two to six o'clock tomorrow. Opportunities will also be given at the same time Friday and Saturday afternoons.
The tryouts are open to all players of band instruments and there is room for all good musicians. In cases instruments will be furnished.
NINE IN AUTO SPILL
Poierer, K. U. Senior Suffers Fractured Skull This Afternoon
Constant J. Poierer, c'17, suffered a slight fracture of the skull this afternoon when an automobile in which he was one of nine passengers, skidded at the corner of Ninth and Tennessee Streets and crashed into the chrb. The injury is not serious. Forest Liddle, c'20, was jarred up considerably from a fall, but was scarcely more than bruised. William Feder, a sophomore of last year who will not be on the Hill this fall, suffered a scratched arm. Feder was driving Lawrence Connor, a fourth grade teacher, to Russell Stephens, another freshman, was jarred by a fall.
Other occupants of the car, who escaped uninjured, were: Lewis Litt e'18; Dave McCreath, c'19; Clark Lillis, c'20, and John Gharvie, c'30.
The accident occurred when Feder, who was driving, attempted to avoid a milk wagon which turned into Tennessee Street at Ninth just as Feder turned his car into the same street. Feder made a sharp turn, avoiding pedestrians and bumped the curb, throwing the passengers to the ground.
The car was a striped Overland built on racing lines.
K. U. WONT DISMISS
ON COLUMBUS DAY
Although October 12, Columbus Day, is a legal holiday in Kansas, classes will not be dismissed at the beginning of this morning by Chancellor Frank Strong, in response to an inquiry regarding a possible holiday. "It has never been the custom to take a holiday at that time," Doctor Strong said.
Several years ago an attempt was made by a number of students to compel the University authorities to dismiss classes on October 12. The matter was taken to the attorney general of the state; and the decision given was that holidays could be attended at the direction of the chancellor. "There is no need for a holiday at that time of the year," Doctor Strong told a reporter. "And we already have too many holidays, anyway."
A telegram received in Lawrence this afternoon from Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Hall, of Otumpa, la, an assistant professor at Evelyn, to Lewis E. Wulfehuk尔, of Leavenworth. The ceremony was performed in Chicago this morning. Both Miss Hall and Mr. Wulfehuk尔 students in the University last year.
Marriage is Announced
Herbert Laslett of Lawrence, c18 spent the summer at the Fort Hays farm experiment station at Hays and was employed to conduct the operation of its kind in the United States.
Clyde Caudil, c19, from Protection, Kans., who returned to school yesterday, claims to have spent the most unpleasant summer of any of the students. "Ikey" was in a hospital in Wichita for two months as
To Heads of Departments:
The first convolution and opening exercises of the University will occur Friday at 10:30 o'clock in Robinson Gymnasium. It is desired that all members of the faculties be present and sit on the platform. Will you kindly see that the faculty are at the Administration Building, where the faculty procession will be formed, promptly at 10:30.
Yours truly,
FRANK STRONG,
Chacnellor.
SHOW GAIN
Three Hundred More Than Last Year Now Here—Summer Students Not Counted
COMING TODAY
Gymnasium Continues As Center of Opening Activity
Registration figures this morning reached 2381, which number is about 300 ahead of the figure at the same time last year. Nearly 1000 had enrolled in classes in the College, School of Fine Arts and School of Fine Arts this morning. A large increase in the number of freshman engineers was reported at noon but no figures have been compiled yet on the enrollment of upperclassmen in the School of Engineering. Enrollment in the junior law class is also more than usual but that of upperclassmen had enrolled this morning.
Commencing early this morning Prof. George E. Putnam's whistle announced the closing of class lists, Before 10 o'clock practically all of the students were filled and numerous sophomore classes in the economics, philosophy and history groups closed. This, as usual, caused much confusion among the students enrolling as each change necessary for them to revise their courses.
ENGLAMERY SKILL CONTINUE
the upper floor of the gymnasium was apparently deserted today but the same bustle and excitement prevailed downstairs in the enrolling room. A line of freshmen, who drew the last picture they saw until nearly noon, awaiting the welcome summons of the doorkeeper. The sophomore and junior classes enrolled yesterday while many of the seniors and graduate students were waiting to receive tickets today after the mad rush was over.
ENROLLMENT STILL CONTINUES
MEDICAL MEN NOT INCLUDED
The figures on registration have out of the way clerks does not include those who have registered in the School of Medicine at Rosedale. There were 60 students there last year and a much larger enrolment each year. The summer school students have not been figured in yet either and with more students filing through the routine each hour George O. Foster is still confident that his 3000 enrollment prepares him for the afternoon when the doors closed the figures were 380 ahead of the number at the same time last year.
THEY WANT YOU THERE
University Women's Association Gives All-University Party
A general get-together party of every student and faculty member of the University, the annual all-University party, will be held, as has been custom for years, in Robinson Gymnastics Saturday night of this week.
"The gathering this year will take the form of a reception," said Mrs. Frank Strong, president of the association. "He will be very informal, and very generous. His experience is expected to take this opportunity to get acquainted. Hereoferethe large portion of the student attendance has been from the new students, and the ladies of the faculty who are making the arrangements for our celebration will fraternity and security announce the mixer and urge a good attendance.
The purpose of the affair is to get the new students and the new members of the faculty acquainted with the old students and professors. The party is given by the University Women's Association and the hearty co-operation of every University organization is assured.
"This is the time when the new men and women are turning their minds toward their homes with the idea that University is most appropriate outfit, for everyone on the Hill, new and old, take it upon themselves to give a rousing welcome to the new student and faculty members and those who will be there for the first time will be there to accept a glad hand from the University.
ASIA MINOR STUDENT
SELECTS K. U. OVER YALE
The student coming the farthest to enroll in the University is Nazareth Boyajian of Moureut Aziz, Armenia—in Asia Minor. He was on his way to Yale University where his credits have been accumulated in Oklahoma who persuaded him to stop at K. U. Mr. Boyajin will enroll as a junior in the School of Law.
Mr. Royajian holds an A. B. degree from the Eunphraste College, Asia University. This is the first time that he has been enrolled in an American University.