UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
TO FIGHT FOR TITLE
Valley Baseball Championship To Be Decided In Missouri Series
NEED BLEACHERS TO WIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY, 17, 1916.
The coming series is one in which the crowd will play an important part. At least the crowd of thirty-five hundred which turned out for the games at Missouri won the first game and almost won the second. Wonderful rooting and support by the rooters almost gave the Tigers two wins in the third game. It was in the end game that Kansas had their little scare by the crowd. The Jayhawkers had a three-run lead in the fifth innning and Missouri was at bat. The band played Dixie and the crowd went wild. Cheering and rooting of the real "honest-to-goodness" variety showed itself and the cheerleaders had a busy half hour. The excitecents included an innings on the Kansans and the pep which the Missourians received from this rally lasted throughout the game.
McCarty Wants Kansas to Profit by Missouri Example
The importance of the coming series of two games with Missouri can not be over emphasized. The Missouri Valley baseball championship rests on these two games and with the even break of the teams in Column 10 it necessitates either team winning both games to clinch the championship.
Kansas has been showing wonderful speed this year but nothing that will exceed the showing of Brewer's conference battle apiece while the Tigers have lost only one game this season. Until their defeat at the hands of the Jayhawks Saturday afternoon the Missourians had a clean record of fourteen straight victories. The number included five conference victories.
TIGER ROOTERS WON
"It is a little of this pop that we want to see on McCook Fold Friday and Saturday afternoons," said Coach Leon McCarty this morning." We not only want to see it but have got to have it. If Missouri can turn out 3,500 people for one game, then the mob more than that. Then, too, when the mob gets there they do not need to think they are at a prayer meeting."
SQUAD IN GOOD SHAPE
McCarty has been putting the men through a final workout this week. The game in Emporia with the Teachers gave the men a hard work-out and put them in better condition for the two hard games this week. No changes in the line-up have been announced and it is probable that Red Craig will do the hurling on bad game unless his knee games bad on him during the second Missouri game, will be on the mound in the second game on McCook. The Valley title depends on winning both games and Kansas is not going to take a chance on losing one of them.
The present plans are to have the band out for the occasion. The cheerleader has been urged to be on hand and the crowd will join in. The game of baseball played on McCook Field in a number of years. Organized yetting at a baseball game has been a neglected thing that was in full swing, Friday and Saturday.
"The team will need the help of every student in these two games," said Coach McCarty as a gentle reminder.
Frank E. MELvin, who will be an instructor in modern European history next year, graduated from the University in the class of 1906. In 1908 he returned to Germany and European history and took his master's degree here in 1909.
For the three years from 1909 to 1912 he was assistant in history at the University of Illinois. The summers of 1911 and 1912 were devoted to archives of London and Paris. In the fall of 1912 he went to the University of Pennsylvania as research fellow and lecturer in the graduate school until his appointment last year as assistant professor of European history in Cornell University.
Instructor in European History Has Good Record
Dr. Melvin is a research man with a wide variety of interests. Much of his early work was done with the La Salle papers, which he is to edit for the Illinois Historical Society. He published an interesting inquiry into the origin of the power of the courts to declare statutes unconstitutional in the American Political Science Review for May 1914. His most important work is a study of Napoleon's System of Licensed Navigation.
MELVIN IN CLASS OF '06
Send the Daily Kansan home.
SACHEMS TO INITIATE
NEW MEMBERS TONIGHT
The Sachems, senior men's secret society, will initiate fifteen new members at the Odd Fellow's Hall tonight. The names of the new men will be made public at the Student Day conference Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock.
"It has been the custom," said Guy M. Lamar, president of the organization, "not to announce the names of those initiated until Student Day."
URGE CAPS AND GOWNS
Senior Class Asks Faculty to Co-operate in the
The executive committee of the senior class, acting on the action of the class makes the following announcement.
Believing with the senior class that the wearing of academic costume by the members of the faculty will add greatly to the dignity and interest of our Commencement ceremonies, the Executive Committee for Commencement affairs takes this means of urging all officers, deans and faculty members of the University of Kansas to comply with the request of the Commission in the holding of academic costumes this year at the formal Commencement Exercises at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 7, 1916.
The executive committee in obtaining the sentiment of the members of the faculty in this matter, has found fifty-six members of the faculty who are willing and planning to adopt the custom, and it is believed that many more will join the movement now that it is well assured of success.
Prof E. M. Briggs, chairman of the committee, will be in his office in the Trophy Room of the Gymnasium every day the rest of this week except Monday. There are two doors and from 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. to take orders and measurements. The orders to the makers must be in by Monday, May twenty-second.
Professors E. H. S. Bailey, F. B. Dains and William A. Whitaker, of department of Chemistry, will go to Manhattan Saturday to attend the meeting of the Kansas City Section of the American Chemical Society.
CHEMISTS TO MANHATTAN
The afternoon will be devoted to inspection of the chemistry and other departments and will witness the following experiments now in progress: Experiments in animal nutrition, enzymes of flour, chemistry of paint drying as well as numerous activities of a more routine character.
Will Inspect Aggie's Department of Chemistry
The evening program will include three papers, which will be read by instructors of the Agricultural College and are as follows: "The Chemical Conditions Necessary for Making Alfalfa Silage." by C. O. Swanson; "Notes on New and non-off-farm Alfalfa Production" by R. H. Needham; "On the Nutritional Deficiencies of Corn," by J. T. Willard.
This is the first time that the Kan was City Section has met in Manchat that
DAR HITE, OLD KANSAN
STARVIS ON HILL
Marie Drake of Ft. Scott is visiting her sister Gladys, at the Sigma Kapna house. Miss Drake came to attend the May Fete.
Miss Margaret Lynn who broke her arm, the arm that Billy Sunday was here, is at the Simmons Hospital not because the arm is not getting along nicely but because she was worn out and tired. She was ill this morning that Miss Lynn seemed better this morning after a fairly good night's rest.
Omar (Shorty) Hite, '13 College visited old friends on the Hill Tuesday. Shorty is now working in St Louis on the revoke desk of the Republic. Three years ago Hite was appointed Gardner and belonged to the same class along with Dick Gardner and Pug Ferguson. Each have made good since leaving school, Gardner being manager of the night bureau of the Asst. Gardner on St Louis, whom Gardner is a special writer on the Dallas, Tex. Dispatch.
Mrs. G. King, returned to Kansas City Monday, after spending a few days with her son Charles King, a sophomore in the engineering school.
Edna Hitchens of Burlington, spent the latter part of the week with her sister Niki Hitchens, 18 College. She attended school and expects to attend school here next year.
Arthur Sewall spent Sunday at his
birth in Garnet. He made the trip
into New York City, where he met
Miss Lynn to Hospital
NUMBER 154
K. C. TRIP CHANGED INSTALL NEW COUNCIL
University Students Get Specia Train for Billy Sunday Lectures Saturday
MUST NOTIFY COMMITTEE
Round Trip Will be One Forty-
Five on Santa Fe
Saturday instead of Thursday is now the day set for the trip of the Billy Sunday special to Kansas City. The required number, seventy-five, who must pledge their support for the trip was almost complete at the meeting of the Christian Endeavor Union last night.
"The plan as decided on is to leave here Saturday morning at 11:45 o'clock on the Sante Fe special, this will put the crowd in Kansas City for both the afternoon and evening sermons and give everyone time to catch the returning train which will leave after the evening service," and Hugo Weddell who is on the conference in Chicago and the tour of the Seats "for all the party will be reserved in the tabernacle and this will eliminate any trouble that might arise.
The plan as suggested by the Christian Endeavor Union was approved at the meeting of several young people's church clubs. Judging from the interest shown a full spectacle of citizenry in a presentation of citizens to Kansas City.
Teacher for the trip amounting to $1.45 may be purchased from any of the following: Frances Irvine, Odis Burns, Opal Woodruff, Madeline Carrinet, Ernest Gopperp, Hugo Wedell, Registrar Geo. O. Foster, Dr. Arthur Braden, Miss Anne Gittins and Rev. F. W. Ainslie.
Those who wish to make the trip should make provisions immediately so that the required amount of seating capacity can be reserved.
BOTH SINGLES TO K. U.
Teachener Cinches Oklahoma Tournament by Double Tennis Victory
MORNING PRAYERS
In the final round of the dual tennis match with Oklahoma the Kansas squad cinched their victory from the southern school by taking both matches of the singles. This gives Teachner victories over both the Oklahoma players while O'Brien split even on his two matches.
In the first match yesterday afternoon, Captain Teacher had little trouble in defeating Trosper in straight sets 6-1 and 4-2. This was a very difficult game for Robinson the day before. O'Brien the other Kansas entrant in the singles, defeated Robinson 6-4 and 8-6 in straight sets. Trosper defeated O'Brien the day before allowing the their only victories in the dual match.
Week to May 18 to May 24
Leader: The Rev. Paul Dansing-
berg, Pastor All Souls Unitarian
church, Kansas City Mo.
The doubles proved to be easy for the Kansas team. Teachener and Cowgirl played for Kansas against Minnesota. This is the first time in two years that Kansas has used three men in a dual match but the combination this time was successful and the same players will easily face the Missourians next week.
The match scheduled with Missouri for Friday and Saturday has been postponed until Monday and Tuesday of next week. The matches will be played off the same as the previous day. The latter were postponed on account of the bad weather which persisted during the week end.
Edwin W. Hullinger, elected yesterday president of the Associated Journalism students, has gone to Topeka to accept a position on the reportorial staff of the Daily Capitol. He will return to the University in September to complete his senior year's work.
Hullinger entered K. U. this fall with junior standing from Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif. He has served in the daily Kansas during the past month.
CANSAN NEWS EDITOR
GOES TO TOPEKA CAPITO1
Thursday: "The Dread of Responsibility."
At Spunkn to give farewell.
The Spunkn meeting Tuesday night,
night at Woodland Islanders were
made for their farewell party to be
held at Woodland park Friday night.
It is to be a picnic dinner dance. The
party will begin at 7 o'clock.
Sphinx to Give Farewell
Friday: "The Power of Expectancy."
Week of May 15 to 19
Joint Meeting Last Night to Hear Final Reports of Old Representatives
SPEAKER QUESTION LEFT
Special Meeting to be Called to Discuss Scribes' Stand
At a joint meeting last night, of the old and new council the new Men's Student Council was installed. There was no formal ceremony. Tommy Thompson the out-going president gave to Junk Herirott, president-elect his chair and most sincere sympathy for the next school year.
The different committees of the old Council made their final reports and offered advice to the new members. The financial committee showed only five dollars profit on the book exchange; the majority wasiously reported $20.00. Of the $264.10 during the year there remained a balance of $106 in the treasury.
The joint councils made provisions for one representative from the Graduate School. No action was taken regarding a member from the department, but the president and a speaker for the newspaper students was left to be decided at a special meeting tomorrow. Besides not providing a newspaper student day speaker, both the old and new council members would not be investigated. The members of the new council however declared that in the future all elections in the new paper school would be under the jurisdiction of the Association of Journalism students would not be investigated. The members of the new council however declared that in the future all elections in the new paper school would be under the jurisdiction of the Association of Journalism students would be handled the same as those in other schools.
It was decided that Paul Greerey, vice-president of the new council, would preside in Junk Herrriott's place at the Convocation Friday. Owing to his position, he will be Herrriott and Humphy Campbell, speakers from the School of Pharmacy will be in Manhattan. Other schools reported the following representative speakers: Ada Dykes from the College of Law; James Vawter from the School of Engineering and Kenneth Uhls from the School of Medicine.
THEY CAN KEEP A SECRET
The Women Only Tell of Saturday's Formal Not About It
If you want a thing well advertised, tell it to a woman as a secret; the man's Spring Formal is the talk of the man and still no secret has escaped.
To appease some of this persistent masculine curiosity, however, a few hints have been given. A dancer, a kind never before seen at K.U., (apologies to Plutoe Friend and Don Davis) from Kansas City, Barnum & Bailey University; a feature to Miss Elliot providing the Gaucho is sufficiently heated and ventilated.
Ancestors of people who resided in Kansas in the Fifteenth Century will attend for the early hours of the event on the 11:12 Santa, Fatja for the day.
Another hint: the tickets are going
fast and dates are getting scarce.
 Saturday, May 20, is the date for one
of the most informal formals of the
year.
LORENZ DECLARES PLAN FOR CREW IMPOSSIBLE
"A boating crew is impossible," said H. A. Lorenz of the department of physical education yesterday. "There is no place near Lawrence where meets can be held or the crew could practice and besides there are no schools close enough to furnish competing teams."
There has recently been some talk in the University of organizing a crew and interesting other colleges in the effort to the first draw-back is the peers likely.
Even though the University had a crew there are no nearby schools with which to compete. The Kaw near Washburn is even less navigable than is here, Emporia is near no river or canyon and the University of Missouri is several miles from the Missouri River and Lincoln is stranded high and dry.
PROFESSIONAL QUIZZES
HELD TODAY
The Kansas State Examinations in the professional branches are being given today in the chancellor's office. It is given for those who have not taken the work in the School of Education but who wish a certificate. The institution presents an official permit to the office of the state superintendent.
The following is the schedule of the examinations: General, Psychology 8-9 a. m.; History of Education, 10:45; Educational Psychology, 1:30; School Management 3:4:15 and Administration and School Law, 4:15-6 o'clock.
ALUMNUS MAY BE
METHODIST BISHOP
ALUMNUS MAY BE
Dr. Frank Herron Smith, D. D., an alumnus of Kansas University, may be one of the new bishops to be appointed by the Committee on Episcopacy, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is now in charge of the Methodist work in Korea and that is why he will be stationed at Seoul Korea, and he is looked upon as a possible candidate.
The local Methodist church supports Dr Smith
The Stuff of Laughter
As Seen by the Critics
By C. E. S.
The struggle between the harsh, unrelenting bitterness of the northern winter and the soft, sweet joyfulness of spring, was the structure upon which Perey B. Shostac built his dramatic fantasy, "The Stuff of Laughter."
Perhaps, it was not a struggle between Winter and Spring either, but had a deeper meaning—the black of the Middle Ages persecuting the light of the dawning of Today. But I prefer to look only upon the surface and then make it deeply into the very world we have been experiencing for the past few weeks.
The play was well conceived and at times its dramatic artistry was sped by the incidental music to breathless heights—but at times it dropped woofully. The first part, in which the king of Iceland, embodying the spirit of winter, curses his daughter and endeavors to force her to marry the wine-soaked king of Denmark posed as a giant worth another than excellent acting by Ralph Spots, as the King, and Helen Clark as Lavainn, his daughter. The action is tardy, almost to the boresome point, for a fantasy.
The second part starts well and possesses the real merit and beauty of the play. The action moves swiftly; the symbolic dances are happily inspired and very well executed; and the accompanying music is great. In fact, the incidental music which Prof. Arthur Nevin composed and performed in spots. Its delicate and fantastic measures are apt and cleverly beautiful and do much to produce the symbolic illusions of the play.
Probably the weakest part of the play was the staging. The orchestra sat at one side of the stage in view of nearly the entire audience and naturally divided attention with the players. A small lattice surrounding the stage division and would have interfered, but little with either the musical director or the spot light. Also, Mr. Shostac endeavored to be stage manager and actor at the same time, and his efforts to give actors their cues and to give orders to the men in charge of the lights was very diverting as a productive of a wet blinket feeling from the stage by a court fool who quoted an epigram in one breath and shouted, "Lights OFF" with the next
The lighting which had been carefully worked out, was rather a failure on account of the lights which refused to change the appearance of the stage materially regardless of the succession of red, yellow and blue slides with the lighting tower was so placed that the theatre at the university, but it was doubtless due to the physical limitations of the natural stage.
Mr. Shostea's acting of the Court Fool added little to the play. At times his actions were very droll and insulting, but often he spired a smile or kept pace with his lines. However, the part of a fool requires a very great amount and a peculiar bent of dramatic art, and Mr. Shostea fulfilled any reasonable expectation.
The play was something new, and it marks the practical beginning of a very desirable form of entertainment at K. U. the open air play—so it was worth while, even had it possessed less merit than it did.
Mildred Rose, of Rosedale, is visiting her sister, Sibyl Rose, 16 College. Miss Rose is teaching near Rosedale, and studies at the University next year.
Harbingers of quiz week: overpopulated library, large numbers of missed meals while cramming was taking place and the overworked, careworn appearance of men at the electric light plant.
Phillip Levi, 19 College, spent Satu-
tance in Kansas City,visiting his parents.
Miss Grace Hurley, of Leavenworth,
spending a Fewth on her sister.
Sister Margaret J. College
Pat Bishop of Kansas City, visited at the Pi U house Saturday and Sunday. He expects to return next fall for more work in the University.
Salome Langmade, '18 Fine Arts who came up from Oberlin to attend the May Fete, and visit at the Alpha Club in New York and be addressed to Norton to do court stenography.
OPPOSE TIME CHANGE
University Officials Don't Favor Putting Clocks Ahead One Hour
MERCHANTS MAY ADOPT IT
If City Ordinance Can Be Passed Plan Will Probably Carry
FIRST CLASS AT 6:20
The proposed plan of the Lawrence Merchants' Association to set all clocks in Lawrence an hour ahead of the montes of June, July and August and opposition at the University, according to the consensus of opinion gathered this morning by a Kansan reporter. By setting all clocks ahead on hour the merchants plan to get their stores open day after day, with the added advantage of cooler and more pleasant working hours. Authorities at the University, feeling that the matter is purely psychological, suggest that the merchant open their stores an hour earlier and close an hour later than usual.
"Personally, the proposed change in time would have little effect on me," said F. J. Kelley, Dean of the Summer Session, this morning. "If the merchants decide to set all clocks ahead an hour, the University will probably arrange its schedule accordingly. Ordinarily, our summer session classes begin at 7:30 o'clock. If the merchants' plan is adopted, it causes classes to begin at 6:30 o'clock. I fear that hour is rather too early, and that the University schedule would be changed back to the winter hour of 8:30 by the merchants' clocks, or 7:30 by railroad time.
"The logical course, it seems to me, would be for the merchants to agree to open for business and to close their stores an hour earlier than under the present arrangement. That would avoid all misunderstandings regarding time of trains and the time of places outside of Lawrence"
MERCHANTS FAVOR SCHMEME
The proposed change in time was suggested by the regular weekly meeting of the Merchant Association yesterday. Charles Decker, Weaver's dry goods store, and Robert Rankin, of the Griffin Ice Company, were appointed to investigate the matter and to report next Tuesday.
The sentiment of the assembled merchants, ascertained by a rising vote, was unanimously in favor of the change in time.
"Everyone must do it, however," said Mr. Rankin this morning, "or the plan will not be a success. The ruling would have to be made in the morning of the day one required to obey it. Otherwise some merchants along Massachusetts Street would at 7:00 o'clock and close at 6:00 in the evening, while others would not open until 8:00 in the morning and remain open for business. That would obviously be unfair to the merchants who closed early."
LARGE CITIES ADOPT PLAN
Cleveland, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan, have adopted the plan, and the Kansas City Star is urging that it be adopted there. Many European cities are to adopt it. Whether Lawrence and the University will take it up remains to be seen.
An interesting comment on the situation was made this morning by Mrs. Charles Esterly, secretary to Dean Karen Hewitt, a young eastern woman she said, "and not so far from Pittsburgh, the residents conceived the idea of changing their Central time for Eastern day, and thus gaining an hour of daylight. One family lived later in the city, a few days later their only daughter was telling me what an advantage it was.
"Why, we are an hour ahead of you folks," she said.
“Certainly, I replied. ‘But instead of setting your clocks just an hour ahead, why don't you adopt London as your home’ you’ll be a whole day ahead of us.”
Prof. H. O. Kruse entertained his class in Oral Composition at his home Thursday afternoon. He showed them pictures of Germany and played a number of German songs on the victoria. Light refreshments were served.
The Weather
The Forecast: Party cloudy tonight and Thursday, probably showers on south portion tonight, somewhat warmer Thursday west and south portions.
Return "Modern Essays" at Once
Will the person who has taken
the essays from the journalism
library please use the journalism
somebody else would like to use it.
A unique and altogether unusual record is that made by Notre Dame in last year's athletics. Every student in the University took part in some sport. Nineteen hundred and seventy-five students or more sports, such as football, basketball, hockey, wrestling, baseball, boxing or tennis.