THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
VOLUME V
TO GIVE CHINESE PLAY WHITE WASHED K.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1916.
NUMBER
Oriental Court Costumes 500 Years Old and Years in Construction
THE PROPERTY MAN STARS
Stage
Spends His Idle Moments on the Stage
"The Yellow Jacket," the Chinese play that has become one of the most popular of the repertoire of the Coburn Players, will be presented for Lawrence Friday evening, June 23, on the campus of the University.
The Chinese stage is devoid of scenery but is amply equipped with furniture, properties, gorgeous costumes and grotesque makeups. The scene at any moment is imagined to be whatever the actors say it is.
At the rear of the stage there are two doors, one for the entrance of the players and the other for their extras. Between these two doors is an alcove that houses the small orchestra, which plays Chinese music throughout the three acts. The music of the two-piece orchestra is a modification of the noises made by Chinese musicians, who play music according to the characters as they appear on the stage. One acquainted with Chinese drama knows, without seeing the actor, whether it is the hero, heroine or the villain on the stage by the nature of the music played. Wagner is said to have copied the Chinese idea of a musical motive for each character.
"The Yellow Jacket" with its unusual and original theme of manner of staging, scores huge success with every presentation. It was written and is acted in accordance with the traditional conventions of the Chinese stage. By an interesting coincidence these conventions happen to be almost identical with those of the Elizabethan stage. Therefore it bears a strong structural resemblance to the plays of that era, the most brilliant and productive in the history of the English drama.
The text of the play is exquisite. The lines are extremely poetic. Following again the Chinese tradition, the Flowery Kingdom is reflected in the flowery language used, not extravagant but simple and symbolic. The action is quiet but ever onward. Humor is felt, rarely indicated except in a few grotesque make-ups. The curent and serious pose of the players gives the forces of the greatest amusement to the conception of the various scenes is such a novelty, is so extraordinary odd and unusual to our accepted English scene, that we are startled, then amused and finally convulsed.
Visitors here yesterday gave many compliments to the University. It is the opinion of one that the Museum is the finest school Museum in this part of the country.
The property man is one of the two important characters. He is supposed to be invisible, but he is always on the stage. He supplies all of the required properties, and reads the comic supplement of a newspaper during his idle minutes. He picturesquely wears an expression of boredom, smokes through the sheer tediousness of the work he has to do, and the audience is supposed to be ignorant of this.
Lutie Hildinger, e'16, will teach English at Peabody next year, and also have charge of the school library.
Recital was Entertaining
The two-piano rital given by Miss Harriet Greissinger and Miss Anna Swenee, assisted by Mr. William B. Dalton, cellist, and Dean H. L. Butler, baritone, yesterday evening in Fraser Hall was attended by a large audience. The program was very much appreciated if one may judge from the applause. The unusualness of the program was the two-piano musical numbers.
Recital Was Entertaining
The court costumes used are rare and costly. Two of them are 500 years old, the designs embroidered on them are significant and are the results of the labor of ten or twelve women working four or five years.
"The Yellow Jacket" has been the subject of critical review and essays by Prof. Brander Matthews, Arthur Hornbill and Clayton Hamilton and other eminent authorities, who in one voice preclaim it the most unique, original and interesting play given the American public for 25 years or longer. It is a play with its call on the imagination, like "The Rival's" and "Richard III" which are given with the Elizabethan scenery. The latter plays will be presented Saturday afternoon and night respectively
Company M Did the Job On a Big Boulder Near Manhattan
FORT RILEY WAS LIVELY
Aggies Didn't Like the Scenery and Mixed With Co. M.
War may be just like Sherman said it was but there is a pleasant side to everything. Especially is this true of the encampments at Ft. Riley where Company M will make its headquarters for a few days or possibly longer. The team plays on the field and baseball games add to the guest of the soldiers in the training camps.
Since most of the men in the milieu are young fellows they have either a close or a remote connection with some university or college. This factor enters into the fun in the campus as is shown by the picture of the big K, C, sign shown on this page. This picture was directed by the K, U, troops who had history and another page is added to this history. For example, neve rails to need whitewashing every year and the Aggies never fail to destroy it.
The fun all started when the K. u company went to its first encampment in 1911. The company was then known as the First Provisional Company, K. N. G., because it had not enough men to be called a regular company. On their first encampment the K. U. students decided "to make use of the large number of boulders on the side of the mountain-like hills near Ft. Riley and a huge sign "K. U." was laid on the hill. The boulders were then whitewashed and the two thousand milita awoke the next morning with the big K. U. sign staring them in the face. It was large enough to be seen too, for the "K" was 50 feet long and 20 feet wide at the top and bottom. The "U" was the same size. The result was a sign that could be seen for miles along the Union Pacific tracks and from anywhere on Pawnee Flats where the militia men camp.
But the following night things began to happen. Company I of the First Regiment hails from the K. S. A. C. and they could not stand to look at the K. U. sign on the side of the hull only twenty-two miles from their own school. It was not their ambition to erect a sign of their own but they particularly desired to destroy the rival sign. The K. U. troops were prepared for the attack and a small squad lay in ambush until Company I got near. The fight that followed was mostly a fist battle between the huskies of the two companies and more than one militan started rolling down the hill and could not stop. Word reached camp that the companies were fighting and Company II and the First Regiment Band of Lawrence started out to help the other Lawrence men. Company I was soon put to flight and quiet prevailed until morning.
Orders were received for breaking camp the next morning and the K. U. troops, not anticipating further trouble, entrained. No sooner had they done so than a squad of Company I men ran up the hill to the sign, Part of the "U" was tossed down the hill before the 1st. Prov. Co. men could stop the attack. But the Man-hantites took to the hills while the K. U. men hurried to the train without waiting to repair the damage.
At the present time both signs are intact and the short stop at Ft. Riley will allow the Lawrence troops time to add a coat of whitewash to the weather-worn rocks and "K. U." will be dressed up in "white togs" until her sons again return from the little foxicanix mix-up. Meanwhile, K. U.警觉地看着他向 Pacific or the Golden Belt Route Ft. Riley will view the huge sign with pride while the Aggie followers may well think of the fight they lost.
The fighting began early at the next encampment two years later. But the sign remained intact most of the time and at the end of the encampment a large "tst Band" had been erected as a security sign. Since about half of the band men were University students the same squad could protect both signs.
mash before they get to mexico.
It is possible that some other "K, U"
signs will be set up before the trip is
owen. One Company M man expresses the
wrongning when he said, "I want to build one of
those signs at least a hundred feet high right in front of Carranza's "door."
Possibly the two companies will clash before they ret to Mexico.
Send the S. S. Kansan home.
Good Bye K. N. G.'s
Sixty-five men with lessrequent faces, garbed in the picturesque brown, which Uncle Sam furnishes his soldiers, will march this morning to the Union Pacific station and entrain for Fort Riley, where they will sell their wares.
award holders to serve their country. They display no excitement but instead seem calm and inwardly happy. There is a grit in their eyes that does not indicate recklessness or thirst for adventure; it comes rather from the fact that they have been forgotten in their crenneity to heed the call of the colors. Many of them are more lads; but they have, in a day or two, already taken on the bearing of men, under the transforming touch of responsibility.
RECRUITS WANT CREDIT
Request Refused But Fees Will be Returned According to Dean Kelly.
We wish them Godspeed.
For the first time in the history of K. U. we are to have a regular old-fashioned picnic, according to a report made by the executive committee this morning. Where it will be held is not definitely arranged but it will probably be at Woodland Park or Cameronship Park or a picnic ground. We may have it some Saturday all day or perhaps some moonlight night.
CAPT. JAMES NAISMIH,
Chaplin of the First Infantry of
Kansas.
SUMMER STUDENTS WILL
A request made by some of the members of Company M, Kansas National Guard, that they be given credit for the Summer School courses for which they were enrolled has been declined by Dean F. J. Kelly, director of the Summer Session. The Summer Session will be reaffirmed to all members of the Guards, whether they were members before, or enlisted after the call.
The object of this affair is to get together and get acquainted and to promote a general spirit of fellowship among the Summer Session students. It will be a regular University/University Parties held here in the winter time except that it will be held out in the open.
"The men realize," said Dean Kelly yesterday, "that they are simply doing their duty, and that there is no reason why they should be paid in terms of credit. Those who are making this request are asking for credit in subjects that they have not mastered. Suppose a student's mother were taken suddenly ill, and that that student were obliged to return home. We could not give him credit; and this situation is a parallel case."
HAVE AN OLD TIME PICNIC
Those members of the Company who think they should receive credit intend to petition the Governor and the Board of Administration "If they do not believe that Ben Kelly, "they cannot hope for aid because the Governor is without authority in such matters, and the Bond will in all probability take no action."
FIRST COME ARE NOT FIRST SERVED An Idyl En Passant.
PROFESSOR FLINT LEAVES
TO TEACH AT CALIFORNIA
Prof. L. N. Flint, acting head of the department of journalism at the University, left Tuesday for the University of California, where he will conduct courses in journalism in the Summer Session at Berkeley. Among them, he will be the editing of a bi-weekly paper at the University of California.
Mr. ∏int takes the place of Prof. Merle Thorpe, who gave up his teaching in California to accept a position as editor of the "Nation's Business."
The most populous if not the most popular place on the Hill is the Educational seminar. At ten o'clock in the morning, if the librarian were to tag a huge white "Standing Room" sign over the door, at ten thirty o'clock the sign would have to be replaced by an "Absolutely No Room Anywhere" please.
It is a big problem that the librarian has to solve—how to seat thirty-five persons in twenty-seven chairs. The first twenty-seven pedagogues who arrive in time to pre-empt a chair nonchantly eye those unfortunate lolling against the magazine cases, book in hand, waiting for some one to get up. Presently a large pumpous looking individual, no less a personage than a city superintendent, rises in sense of another book. There is something tough to jiggle from the newest recruit to theagogical profession, and then quiet. The ponderous individual returns, book in hand, stares over his spectacles—why? Where? the puzzled looks given way to an appreciative grin as he takes his turn rolling against a book case.
From eight o'clock in the morning to five o'clock in the afternoon the Seminar is crowded. At five o'clock every head is bent low over a heavy volume, each one trying to absorb just one more chapter before the omnious rattling of the librarian's keys sounds the warning.
For the first time during the Summer Session the Educational Seminar is open at night from seven until ten o'clock. The new rule requiring all teachers to have a teacher's certificate whether one I has had far reaching consequences. It may even lead to providing a larger room for the Seminar.
Three old boilers are being removed from the heating plant south of Snow Hall. Two new and larger boilers will be installed to do their work, making it very easy for the janitors to keep the University buildings warm next winter. The boilers are kept going continually during the winter by vide hot water for the showers, laboratory work and high pressure steam for the chemical laboratory.
INSTALL NEW BOILERS IN HEATING PLANT
The coal used at the plant is never stored in great quantities on account of the trouble it gives due to spontaneous combustion. A large part of the coal comes from the penitentiary; nines.
That the Summer Session is becoming popular with the students of Baker University is evident from the number of students there are here.
MOORE FILLS VACANCY
Will Succeed Twenhofel as Professor of Geology This Fall
The vacancy caused by the resignation of Prof. W. H. Twoenhof of the department of geology has been filled by the election of Dr. Raymond C. Moore of Chicago. Dr. Moore has recently received his doctor's degree from the University of Chicago and is a graduate of the Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Dr. Moore's strong background as a member of the U. S. Geological Survey makes him a man especially fitted to succeed Professor Twwoenhof.
His ability is shown in strong terms by the letters of recommendation received by the department of geology. Among these letters is one from Proi. R. D. Salisbury of the University of New York at Mr. Moore was the only person in many cases to receive the grade of "summa," the highest award in that university.
"We believe that we have made a good selection," said Prof. Erasmus Haworth, head of the department. "There were twenty-five applications for the position, and the applicants were all of excellent ability, but Dr. Moore's scholarship and special attainments entitle him to the place."
At present Dr. Moore is teaching in the Summer Session of the University of Chicago. He will take up his duties here in the fall.
FIRST CHAPEL FRIDAY
Mr. Coburn to Speak on "The Value of Outdoor Theatres."
Chapel exercises for the Summer Session will come at 11:15 each Friday morning during the remainder of the six weeks' course. Chancellor Frank Strong will be in charge of the chapel. The speaker this Friday is to be C. D. Coburn, one of the members of the Coburn Players, who play on the campus Friday and Saturday for the fourth time before Summer Session audiences. Mr. Coburn has announced that his subject will be "The Value of The Outdoor Theatre." A telegram was received by Dean Kelly yesterday from Mr. Coburn in which he accepted the invitation which he had received to address the chapel. The company has just been playing at the Missouri State Normal at Warrenburg, Missouri.
Dean Kelly said, "I consider Mr. Coburn an educator in the highest sense of the word. He has devoted his entire lifetime increasing the appreciation for old and established plays. He believes that the theatre should be a source of education the same as a school."
The Student Volunteer Band meets every Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in Myers Hall.
Former basket ball stars who are attending the Summer Session are holding reunions in the gymnasium several afternoons each week. They play basket ball on the courts and an observer would think that they were regular teams by the amount of pep shown.
ENLISTMENTS ARE MANY
Mrs. H. M. Blandford was visiting the University yesterday. Mrs. Blandford lectured here about two and a half years ago on Canada.
And
Co. M Leave For Fort Riley This Morning on Union Pacific
NOW EAGER FOR SERVICE
Students Return to K. U. From All Parts of the Country
The recruiting officers of Company M in Robinson Gymnasium and at 812 Massachusetts street, where new recruits are enlisting and scattered members of the company are rapidly reporting for duty, has an air of grim determination about it which bodies no good for the Mexicans.
According to Capt. F. E. Jones, just as soon as the equipment and supplies now in the hands of the State of Kansas can be transferred to the United States and checked back to the individual men, the company will be ready to go to Ft. Riley. Yesterday was spent for the most part in checking this equipment over, getting it ready for transportation, and loading it on the car. Company M leaves the camp at about seven o'clock this morning for the train which will start for Fort Riley at 9:40 a.m.
Lieut. E. M. Briggs who is in charge of the office at 812 Massachusetts street is buoy assisting Dr. Catherine, conducting the medical examination.
A number of students from the University have enlisted since the Company was called out by the President. Meryl Adams came from Ohio where he had gone recently. Arthur W. Ericson of Clay Center, who was mustered out just at the close of school, came back to join as soon as he heard that the Company had been called, which shows how eager the boys are for service after they have had a taste of training. Clarence Griffith of Lawrence has also enlisted. Randal Harvey of Topeka, whose father was a major in the Twentieth Kansas, joined the company yesterday morning. F. C. Sands, A. B.'13 of Coffeyville, who was a sergeant in the Company while he was a student here in school, has returned and enlisted as a private. James R. Grinstead, a corporal in Company M, who has been attending a military camp in Gleorothere, Ga., reported for duty at eleven o'clock and is anxious to be off. Sergeant Kelley, who will report to Los Angeles, Calif., at the close school by the death of his father will report at Fort Riley where he is now en route.
CAPT. F. E. JONES Of Company M.
Company M reports at 7:30 a.m. for roll-call and a short drill; then each man is detailed to different work in checking over the equipment and supplies, which lasts until noon. At 1:30 they answer the roll-call and are detailed again, some to check equipment, others to drill the new recruits in the first fundamentals of handling arms, and learning the squad formations.
DON'T WORRY! YOU'LL GET
THAT LOST ARTICLE BACK
You should worry about any thing you lose during the Summer Session. It will come back the next day—or sooner. Lourenia Saw lost her pocketbook at the Christian Church Social and the next day it was to reheat it. Soon Miss Shaw went to class, noticed that he hand bag the back of a chair. She quickly dinned the owner and restored the lost article. It's just impossible to lose anything, unless it is credit for a course.
J. W. French, e13, who has been principal at Abileme for the last three years, will be at Winfield next year as principal. Mr. French will be remembered as the holder of the high bump while in school.
A letter home—the Summer Session Kansan.