UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
DO YOU KNOW K. U.?
Then You Can Answer These Fundamental Questions About the University
What constitutes a great University is one that will hold you for a while.
If you can answer it to the satisfaction of the crowds and the educators, then you will have done something that people have been trying to do. They've had a lot of many discussions and drawn a line for the present generation to toe.
But there is one thing certain. Those universities that have been more generally acknowledged great have had more traditions and widely known history than we have at the University of Kansas. There are names and places held dear by the whole student body in other institutions which mean more than a mere name. Our lack of tradition is not due to a lack of sentiment, it is because of a wanton ignorance of the early history of the University and some of the stories connected with its founding.
If you think that you are up on University history look over these questions which are all fundamental and see how many of them you can answer with any degree of accuracy. If you think that you are one of those students who are building up an "esprit de corps" here at the University.
What, when and by whom were the first steps taken towards establishing an institution of higher learning in the State of Kansas?
When was the present site of the University chosen?
What was the first University building, buildings that will remain main campus? The second? The second?
When was the first act passed by the Legislature organizing the University, and what was its first government?
In what month and year did University classes convene for the first time?
Who was the first chancellor of the University?
What was the first University building, and how was it built?
How many acres of ground on the University campus at Lawrence? At Rosewood.
How many buildings, both for instruction and service, are on the campus at Lawrence? How many were donations from individuals?
When was the present government of the University adopted? What is
How many chancellors has the University had since its founding? Nane
How many schools are connected with university and what degrees granted
How many students have received degrees from the University of Kannan
Name five prominent men, gradates of the University of Kansas.
When as the first wing of the Administration building built, and what is the proposed cost of the entire building?
There are a hundred other questions that would be almost as fair, but these are fundamental, and there is not a catch question in the bunch. The Kansan will print the answers to these questions in the near future.
One of the featuring features of the May Fete Saturday afternoon was the dancing of a little four-year old chap, who inspired by the lyrical music and the Greek dancers escaped from his mother and began to throw his arms in the air and skip joyfully about.
Lloyd Scott and Verne Griffith, stud ents at Baker University visited friends on the Hill and attended the track meet at Haskell Monday.
The old-fashioned way of pulling teeth was practiced by the proprietor of the K. u. shoe shop last week when he tied a string to the offending tooth and the other end to a nail over the door. After the repeated efforts, during which the string slipped off each toe, the shoe-maker who attempted to do the job. The student was a poor dentist, and the牙 was firm, as a result of which the shee-maker has a tale of woe to tell all of the patrons of his shop.
Classses which tried to meet out-of-doors under the shade trees during the past week found it anything but pleasant. Slick, slimy worms, little fuzzy caterpillers, and a variety of multi-colored creeping bugs took a keen delight in exploding into their skins to such an extent that most of the recitations were interspersed with little feminine shrieks and much jumping around.
The May Convocation will be held Friday, May 19 at 10:30, and will be in charge of the Student Government associations.
Frank Strong.
Of course you'll want to go home looking right. Let Schulz fit you.— Adv.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The University Orchestra will give its last concert for this year Thursday evening, May 18, in Fraser Hall, at 8:00 p. m.
MEN—B dressed right Commencement week. Ask Schulz.-Adv.
Frank Strong.
Mrs. Eustace Brown requests that all students who participated in the Scotch Dance at the Halloween Party and who are still owing for the gingham for their costumes, please call at once at her office and pay the small amount. The greater part of this bill is still unpaid, and it is unfair to expect the merchants to carry the account any longer.
The Botany Club will hold its annual picnic Wednesday evening, May 17, in the grove east of Woodland Park. Letters from the Alumni will be available at North South Park at 6 o'clock. See Miss Frances McCune in regard to the eats.
"Moore's Safety" and Sheaffer fountain pens—"Eversharp" pencils will make useful Graduation presents. Wolf's Book Store—Adv.
Estes Park students will hold a rally Wednesday evening at 5:30. All students ho have attended the Y, M, and Y, W, C, A. conferences and those who expect to go this year are joined by the applause on golf links. The first cabinets of the two Associations are asked to attend the meeting.
Admission to the Women's Formal is twenty-five cents a couple. Get your ticket by Thursday or Friday at the latest, so the committee can arrange for the number of guests. Gladys Elliott.
Senior Invitations may be secured by those who ordered them, at the Fraser check stand on Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday mornings.
The May Convocation will be held Friday, May 19 at 10:30, and will be in charge of the Student Government associations.
The K. U. Anti-Cigarette League will hold a meeting Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, in room 108, Fraser. The league will be for the coming year. Important.
Forty Club Dance—Woodland Park Saturday night. All members expected.
All Graduate students are requested to meet in Room 202 Administration, Thursday, May 18 at 12:30; to elect a Student Day Speaker.
Sigma Xi will meet Thursday, May 18 at 8 o'clock at the Puilson house.
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THEY ARE IN A BIG HURRY
That's Why Some Profs Ride
Their Bikes
Who are the men in the faculty who ride bicycles? There are three of them, Professors U. G. Mitchell, I. E. Todd and M. E. Rice. Why do they ride them? Simply because they can cover the ground faster than by walking. When they were younger perhaps they tried to do tricks on them, and run races, but those days are over.
"My first bicycle was a hundred and thirty-five dollar Columbia which I bought way back in '92," said Prof. U. G. Mitchell. "The tires were made of solid rubber and the frame of handled steel. There was prac- tice taken out our garage." Later I had these tires replaced by pneumatics when they came in.
"I still ride a bicycle when I am in a hurry to go any place. Generally I take it up the Hill with me when I have reasons to hurry home after there. There is no transferring or waiting for cars when I have my bike."
Professor Todd has been riding a bicycle for twenty-two years. He says that he finds it about as easy as walking and much faster. The rims of his first bicycle were made of iron instead of wood as they are now.
A severe case of measles is keeping James Akright, of Sterling, a freshman in the College from attending his classes.
Mr. and Mrs. Hilton, of Cottonwood Falls, stopped off here Monday to visit at the Sig Alph house. They were on their way to Kansas City.
The library is unusually thicky populated the last few weeks by freshmen who are reading short stories for their final themes.
The May Convocation will be held Friday, May 19 at 10:30, and will be in charge of the Student Government associations.
Frank Strong.
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The fourth graduating recital of the School of Fine Arts will be a piano recital given tonight by Helen Dawson, assisted by Miss Laura Parrot, a contratoer from Kansas City. He is a member of this year's class.
Program Tonight By Fine Arts School Senior
Miss Lucy Parrott, who graduated from the School of Fine Arts in 1913,
is a sister of the assisting contralto
and will be here to accompany her.
The program is as follows:
Ballade, F major... C1
Ballade, F major...Chopin
Carnival Prank...Schumann
Miss Dawson
Oh rendimi ...Rossi
Prelude . . . . .
Miss Dawson
Habanera (from "Carmen")...Bizet
Miss Parrott
Beautiful Blue Danube, Concert
Arabesques . . . . . Schultz-Evle
Miss Dawson
Miss Parrott
Der Schmelz  Brehms  Brahms
Bonts sail on the Rivers.  Homer
Davis  J. A. Cormack
Concerto in A minor ... MacDowell
Andante Cantabile
Miss Dawson
Miss Dawson
Second piano, Prof. C. A. Preyer.
Student Volunteers, an organization interested in foreign mission work, picnicked at Woodland, Tuesday evening. Business was combined with art and science students, who number about 26, are organized to study missions in the foreign field, with the object of entering the foreign field in the future.
When a large bottle of benzoyl chloride was spilled in the basement storeroom in the chemistry building a few days ago, the room had to be closed for three days before anyone could enter. Some thoughtless student attempted to take the bottle from the shelf by means of the cork, and probably was surprised to see the bottle seperate itself from the cork. Benzoyl-chloride is a very odoriferous compound.
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Friends of Bernard Gillespie, were glad to see him in Lawrence again even for a few days. He left the University last semester and has been interested in a copper mine near Chelsea, where he stays only a short time Mr. Gillespie thinks he will be able to return for the Beta's Spring party.
The May Convocation will be held Friday, May 19 at 10:30, and will be in charge of the Student Government associations.
Frank Strong.
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