THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
VOLUME V.
COBURNS NEXT WEEK HAD RECREATION HOUR
Shakespearean Players Offer Three Productions Friday and Saturday
UNIVERSITY OF KAN$AS FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1916
The ever-popular Coburn Players will give three performances Friday and Saturday of next week on the University campus, just west of Snow Hall. A stage will be erected and chairs will be used from the Gymnasium. This year's repertoire will consist of Jackie "Riley" Fridy, closing June 23, "The Rivalry" and Richard III," Saturday afternoon and evening.
The famous Coburn Players' fourth visit to the University is anticipated with even greater enthusiasm than any of the former ones because of the high reputation established here during the last year's entertainments. The out-door performances are distinctive and unmistakable superior materialism with limitless possible within the limitations of four walls.
Tickets will be on sale all next week at the Round Corner Drug store, 800 Massachusetts street.
Last summer the players won only once out of three times against the weather elements. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was given on the campus beneath a clear moonlit sky. On the two stormy nights the plays were staged in the Gym but were so well attended that the receipts for the week more than exceeded the guaranty.
NUMBER 4.
LAWS TO BATTLE "JINX"
"All Will Pass Bar Exam," Says Uncle Jimmy
The "Jim" that all Law students must conquer, girded with sword and armed with tridents, is awaiting combat June 21 and 23. His familiar name is Bar Examinations. Each year at this season he does battle and learns new skills by training at the University to put him over the vines until another summer.
During an interview yesterday
Unce Jimmy, alias Dean Green,
was asked casually if all would pass the
bar.
"And are there no exceptions?" he was asked.
"Pass?" said the benign Uncle,
"They always pass."
"Well, now, if I recall, there was a little negro who failed a few years ago, but he didn't take the examination," said Uncle Jimmy. "after graduation," said Uncle Jimmy.
"Is that the only instance of 'flunk'?" uzied the reborer.
"No, one man, a very bright man too, got stage-fright and failed. His hands were cold as ice when it was over. But those were only incidents," remarked the Dean. "They will all pass."
Thirty-seven will take the examination this year. The twenty-five who take the exams at Topeka are: Robert Smith, Ira Elswick, John Parsons, Edwin Lupton, Chas, Cary, Dewitt Stiles, Harry Gray, A. J. Gibson, James McKay, Fred Hard, Henry Asher, A. C. Reed, S. A. Moss, Raymond D. T. Cussety, Biley W.ey, Marion D. Tussety, Lily Arthur, A. Hofman, Kirk Wale, K. Roland E, Boynton, Willis N. Calkins, Glendon Alvine, Harold R, Branine, Edward M. Boddington, Robert W, Hemphill, Jr., and Joseph W. Hill.
The following nine will take the Missouri examination at Columbia: John F. Battale, Charles L. Moor, Robert C. Skinner, Nell Cline, Robert C. Simmons, C. C. Bruntz, George B. Strother, Harland Hatchings and J. P. McCannon.
John R. DeVine will try out in Arkansas and Walter Stone and Albert N. Murphy in Oklahoma.
Mrs. Kelly Entertains Today
Mrs. F. J. Kelly will entertain the wives of all students at her home, 1652 Mission Hill, until 3 until 6. No special invitations have been sent, but the wives of all students are cordially invited.
Board to Consider Budget
Board to Consider Bagger
The Board of Administration will hold one of the most important meetings of the year. Monday, June 19, for the purpose of considering the budget for next year, The Deans have made recommendation to Chancellor Frank Strong, who will assist the Board in distributing the appropriations for next year among the different departments.
Robert Grinstead, is spending his summer vacation in the military training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Grinstead is a member of Company M.
Volley Ball, Folk Dances, and Vinginia Reel on Wednesday's Program
The first real organized recreation hour was held Wednesday evening after the Community Sing. Seventy-five enthusiastic students met on the stretch of lawn before Fowler Shops to become acquainted and heard of the plan of systematized play for the summer.
A rousing game of volleyball, new to most of the participants, created amusements for the onlookers as well as players. Following the games, Dr. Alice Goefz demonstrated some of the simple folk dances, representing the cultural dances of Sweden, Germany; Spain, England, Norway, France, and Italy.
Dr. James Naismith has charge of the games and has promised to introduce some new forms of ball and the child-hood game of tag. Broncho tag proved popular with the students in the summer program.
The piano receives better care this summer than ever before. A platform, built on rollers, is pushed back and forth from Fowler every evening. This plan affords greater protection to the instrument than the supposedly water-proof box used heretofore.
A genuine, old-fashioned Virginia reel finished the initial recreation hour of the year. These meetings have, besides an educative value, a promotion of social development. They are open to all and the 'more the merrier':
ALUMNI NOW NUMBER 6304
K. U. Graduates Scattered All Over the Globe
With the graduation of 465 seniors his year the number of graduates from the University has increased to 304. This army has been recruited during more than 40 years, and each year's number is graduated into its ranks.
The graduates of the University are scattered most of the foreign countries of the world but by far the larger number remain in America and in their native states. In round numbers the distribution by state is Kansas 3400, Missouri 500, Oklahoma 150, California 150, New York 115, and Foreign S8. The graduates in foreign countries are found in China, Cuba, Canada, Africa, Central America, France, Germany, Hawaii, India, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Austria, Korea, Philippine Islands and Turkey.
Engineering, medical practice, teaching, and religious work have the lead in the foreign field, while at home the legal profession has the greatest number of followers among the alumni. Then engineering, medicine, pharmacy and teaching come next in number.
A special course in graduate work in the Medical School has attracted a number of graduate students from other schools. Three students have enrolled from Northwestern University. Doctor Sundwall says that the training is productive to practicing physicians as well as graduate students.
CALENDAR
Monday, June 19, 4:45 p.m.
Fraser Chapel, Address by
Louise W. Rapep, Ph.D, Author
of the widely used text on school
hygiene. Subject, "Bases of
School Reform."
Friday, June 16, 4:45 p. m.
Fraser Chapel, Motion pictures,
"Romeo and Juliet," two reels,
"African Birds," two reels.
Thursday, June 22, 4:45 p. m.
Address by Louis W. Rapeer.
Subject, "Revolutionizing the Principles of Health." 8:15 p.
m. musical entertainment. Miss Pearl Emley, Organist, Prof. W. B. Downing, Bartone.
Wednesday, June 21, 4:45 p.m.
Fraser Chapel. Motion pictures,
"A Trip to the Garden of Allah",
three reels. "Fanchon the Cricket," one reel.
Tuesday, June 20. 4:45 p.m.
Fraser Chapel, Address by
Louis W. Rapee, Subject: "Educational Recreation."
Saturday, June 24, afternoon and evening, The Famous Coburn Players.
Friday, June 23, 8:00 p.m. The Famous Coburn Players.
Gives Second Course of Special Lectures
DR. LOUIS W. RAPEER
Plain Tales from the Hill
Author of text book on Class Administration, Professor of Education, State College, Pennsylvania. He will speak Monday, June 19, on the "Basis of School Reform," the following Wednesday on "Educational Recreation" and on Thursday his subject will be "Revolutionizing Principles of Health." The lecture will be held at 4:45 p. m. in Fraser Hall.
Walter Krattli, assistant principal of Turner high school, whose home is in Kansas City, Missouri, is taking work toward his master's degree in the University this summer. Mr. Krattli was graduated from Kansas City with the class of '15, and has also taken some work in the Kansas City Law School.
B. P. Young, instructor in the department of entomology, is doing graduate work in Cornell this summer.
R. H. Smith, '16, has been elected to a teaching position in entomology at Corvallis, Oregon.
Kirk Hilton old track star of 1919 and '14 is back in the University taking Summer School work. He has been teaching in a high school in the western part of the state but says that Mount Oread is such a fine place that he likes to come back even if it is for only a few short weeks.
Ralph Rader, 116, began his summer vacation unfortunately. Rader was driving a team of mules near Howard a few days ago when one suddenly kicked him, breaking his jaw and crushing his body. He rushed to St. Francis hospital at Topeka. He is in a very serious condition.
"And the little Ford it rumbled right along," said Edward Todd who has just completed a cross country to Easley Park, Colorado in his Ford in company with four other University students. They report a fine time hunting, fishing and listening to lectures by prominent Y. M. C. A. man, J. E. G. W. K. and the principle forms of diversion. Todd intends to remain there all summer using his Ford to take tourists up the mountains from the Park hotel.
Bob Rowlands the proprietor of Rowlands College Book Store leaves Friday for Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, on a business trip.
Four little girls inspired by the May Fete given on the golf links this spring have donned brightly colored dresses and may be seen practicing songs and dances every pleasant afternoon on the Phi Delt terrace on Ohio Street. They intend to stage a June Fete soon.
"A running start," is how Morton McKean, a summer student, describes his plans for graduation in three departments next year. McKean was a student in 1913-14 and made an enviable record as a member of the
Neely Todd, Leavenworth, after spending a week at home decided that Lawrence is a good town and came back. He will do special work in chemistry.
For the third consecutive year the Kansas State Agricultural College has been designated by the war department as one of the ten "distinguished institutions" in which military training is made a part of the curricul-
Frank Pedroja, graduate of the School of Pharmacy '15, was married June 1, to Faith Newton. They will live in Wakelee, where Mr. Pedroja will have charge of a drug store.
Daisy Williams, 76, formerly a teacher in the schools at Peabody, has been elected to a position in English in the high schools at Republic.
Glee club. He has been principal of the Cherokee (Okla). high school the past year, working with Superintendent Clay Fisk, a former student of the University. He is employed for the following year in the Lawrence high school to do part time in science.
Are sorority girls becoming more sedate or are ministers becoming more frivolous. This was the question which two University instructors asked each other as they saw a sorority girl and a Lawrence minister eating ice cream together at Wiedemann's a few days ago.
Mrs. S, E. Bartlett, Ellsworth, a member of the class of 08, spent Sunday with her sister, Florence Brewer, who is taking summer school work.
W. W. Swingle who received his A. B. degree this year is in town for a few days before he goes to Topeka to assume the duties of secretary of the Kansas Academy of Science. Mr. Swingle had a fellowship in geology while attending the University.
A summer student left his pocket-
book with a five dollar bill in it on
a table in the library. By chance it was
found by one of his friends and
returned. What a difference between
summer and winter!
Tennis courts on McCook Field are being treated with a coat of sand and will soon be in fine condition for play.
A letter written in Spanish by a retail company at Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America has been sent to a University teacher by the Sunshine Mantel Company of Chanute to be translated. The letter was received at Chanute more than a month ago but the large order for which it called was not filled. J. B. McNaught at last succeeded in reading it and says he will expect a commission if the sale is made.
Russell Bracewell has been employed by the water and sewage laboratory as chemist and will begin work the first of July. He will take the place of L. E. Jackson who has taken a position with the DuPont Powder Company in Wilmington, Delaware.
Roy Neal, a graduate chemical engineer, has gone to Bartlesville, Okla., to take a position with the Empire Gas Company. He is to work under Ernest Lyder also University graduate.
Prof. and Mrs. H. V. E. Palmblad will leave Saturday for New York City. Professor Palmblad teaches German in the University and will spend his vacation in New York where he is to teach a class in German in Columbia University,
D. A. Miller and C. B. Watkins went to Kansas City Wednesday to hear Billy Sunday.
Much interest is being shown in the Summer Session by the English teachers of the Lawrence high school this year. Miss Helen Metcalf and Miss Edith Mattono are attending the journalism classes. Their English classes will edit the high school paper next year.
Prof. R. E. Carter has found it possible to accommodate more students by dividing his class in the psychology of high school subjects into two divisions. The original division meets at 10:30 in Room 106 Green Hall as scheduled; the new division will meet at 7:30 in Room 6 Green Hall.
ENROLLMENT NOW 760
But Many Students Have Failed to Turn in Correct Addresses
Nearly one hundred students, however, have failed to turn in their Lawrence addresses at the Dean's office, thereby delaying the publishing of the Summer Session directory. The delinquents are being urged to comply at once in order that a complete catalog can be printed.
Dean Kelly's expectation of seven hundred students has been reached and passed. Yesterday evening the enrollment had reached the 760 mark.
Many students have secured swimming permits during the week and several town people have purchased, at $1 each, the season tickets, sold by the guards in charge at Potter Lake. The tennis courts south of the Gymnasium will not be used this summer as was planned. Arrangements have been made for the use of the nine courts on the golf links.
STATE GUIDES EDUCATION
"Education is a state responsibility," said William T. Bawden in his lecture yesterday afternoon n Praser chapel. "Whatever the local authorities do must be in harmony with the rules of the state. We are apt to think of the school system as a local affair but the Supreme Court through its decision holds it to be state and national.
"The beginning of vocational education was in 1868 with the passage of the Morrill Bill which provided for the establishment of agricultural and engineering schools. Vocational education in the public schools began soon after that, and the institution at Philadelphia where Russia had an exhibit of industrial arts."
Education is a State Responsiblity, Says Dr. Bawden
Dr. Bawden went on to trace the beginnings in the states of New York, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin, bringing it up to the present time, showing the aid given by the states and that by the Federal government.
"The problem of the educator is with the boy and girl who are out of school," said Dr. William T. Bawden in his lecture Tuesday afternoon in Fraser chapel, "and not until the courses are adapted to their needs will education become in any sense universal."
"There is one great trouble with our present-day school system in that it makes the students conform to a standard instead of allowing them to grow naturally. We should fit our schools to the needs of the boys and girls, but set up a course of study and rule out all who cannot conform to it.
PREPAREDNESS SENTIMENT
AT LOW TIDE ON CAMPUS
Captain Jones has discontinued his class in military training during the Summer Session, because of lack of interest on the part of the students.
Most students are taking heavy class work and have not sufficient time to devote to the drill. Captain Jones says that at least an hour and a half each day is desirable if the best results are to be obtained. A few students need to this degree but not enough to make it worth while to continue the class.
"Romeo and Juliet" Today
"Komeo and Juliet" Today
Owing to the popularity of the movies, the extension department is planning to play the replay, Ivanhoe, sometime near the close of the term.
"Romeo and Juliet" will be given today at 4:45 p. m. in Fraser Hall hall.
If I try to Get to France
He can obtain a passport Herbert Flint, instructor in the department of English at London, defy the request of a steamer on the French line for Bordeaux, to be gone all summer. Mr Flint leaves Thursday for Washington. He hopes to tour England, France, Germany and Belgium.
Trying to Get to France
Prof. Eugenie Gallo entertained a few guests at dinner last evening at the Country Club in honor of Prof. A. G. Canfield, of the University of Michigan, formerly of this University. Guests were limited to members of the faculty who were close friends of Professor Canfield.
Viva McKenzie, who is enrolled in the Summer Session, is the supervisor of the girls' playground at Baldwin. She visits Baldwin each Saturday and leaves instructions with her assistant for the work during her absence.
PROFS SAY NO HURRY
Discount Henry's Preparedness Talk and Eastern War Scare
Two addresses dealing with "Preparedness" by Stuart Henry and Hamilton Holt given at the University last week have occasioned much discussion. Several professors have pressed their opinions on the subject.
"Stuart Henry gave us some of the Eastern war scare," said Prof. H. P. Cady today. "I believe that for the preset it would be best t to strike a mean between the two extremes as expressed by Mr. Henry and Mr. Holt, and maintain an army as President Wilson advocates, until some interferences in police force is established. I believe that if we can keep out of trouble until this present war is over, there will be little need for a large army."
"The days of patriotism alone are past," said Prof. William A. McKeever this afternoon. "It is time for internationalism. First we should be Americans but always with a tender consideration for the rest of the world. What the East needs is more "preparedness" for the children and adults. If the conditions there are looked after it will be better than military preparedness. The young men of America do not care to enter the army, our present army is not full and even with a strenuous advertising campaign enough man cannot be secured to fill the ranks.
"I do not believe in compulsory military training for the boys and men of the schools and colleges. It only brings the young man to believe that war is inevitable. It is natural that some time in a boy's life he wants to fight, but if he can be got by this mark without anything to cultivate this desire he becomes a peaceful man."
"The thing to do," said Prof. James Naismith this afternoon, "is to organize everything so that when the time comes we can turn it into the line of protection. We do not need compulsory military training in our schools. What we do need is better training for soldiers in the science of war; men who know how to save the lives of the soldiers under them.
"The thing which I recommend every father to do is to train his son in his early years to tumble and develop his physique. Then in the colleges an optional course should be offered in military training, and gymnastics with a coach who can teach men physically. It is easy to drill men to handle a gun, but to develop the man's physique is much more difficult and important."
TO WORK UNDER FORMER
K. U. PROFESSOR
After having received his M. S. degree from Illinois University, Edman Greenfield, '14, returned to Lawrence Thursday to spend his vacation with his parents at 934 Indiana street. He will return to Urbana August first where he will work as an assistant in the Water Survey under Professor Bartow, who left the University twelve years ago.
FIRST CHAPEL SERVICES
WILL BE HELD NEXT WEEK
At the entertainment last night Dean Kelly put before the large audience the question of holding a weekly chapel exercise. The vote was strongly in favor of the convocation. The first service will be held a week from today at a morning hour to be chosen later.
Kansas Prof. Goes East
H. Ausman Prof. Goes East
H. B Lichtenwalter, instructor in chemistry, has been appointed head of the department of research at the Union Powder and Fertilizer Mill in Harlam, N. J. Mr. Lichtenwalter received his A. B degree from McPherson College and his M. S. degree from the University of Kansas. He is a member of Alpha Chi Sigma, honorary chemical fraternity.
Another Successful Sing
Stolen Successful Sing
The "Sing" Wednesday evening was well attended. Dean Butler led in several oldd songs and in a "round" which was participated in enthusiastically. The Summer Session students express high appreciation of this vesper feature.
Dr. Catherine Boyton came all the way from Los Angeles to see her son, Roland Boyton receive his degree in law.
Miss Nelle Jaroleman of Muskogee, Oklahoma, a former student of the University, is visiting Miss Ruth Plowman of Lawrence.