UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
NUMBER 153
FROM MISSOURI HERE
Most High School Visitors Were Guests of the Tigers Last Week
OVER 150 ARE EXPECTED
Hamilton Relies Upon Students to Show Athletes Good Time
The advance dope on the annual high school invitation track meet to be held on McCook Field Saturday afternoon indicates that the largest meet of many a year will be held. The list of entries is very incomplete as yet but every mail brings in a complete set of entries, and compete but the complete number cannot be determined until the entries close later.
A FULL TEAM FROM K. C.
Invitations were sent out last week to the winners of first places in the annual interscholastic meet held two weeks ago. In addition to this number the high schools of Kansas City will send full teams as will the St. Joseph and the Skokie teams in the state may enter the meet but the expenses will be paid only of those men who received invitations from the athletic association. The association will pay the railroad fare of ten men from each of the Kansas City high schools but the schools may enter as many more as they want in the meet.
In addition to the Kansas City teams will be a number of track stars from Missouri and Kansas. Clarence Williams, a red-headed star from M. Vernon, Missouri, has been invited and his entry is expected to take part in the third of the former captain, Cupid Haddock, will enter the dashes and the weight events. Grissom of Syracuse will appear for the fourth time as the winner of the dashes. He and young Haddock will put up a real face. Barrett Castle of St. Joe is another star with whom he will light clothes for the races Saturday.
USE REGULAR RULES
COME HERE FROM COLUMBIA
The meet will be run under the regular Missouri Valley Interscholastic rules. Any high school can enter as many men as they like but they will only be allowed to start three men in each event. No entry fee is charged in this meet. Three special changes have been made not made in the interscholastic meet two weeks ago. The mile run and discus throw will be held separate from the rest of the events on the program and the winners of these will not be allowed points to count in the regular scoring of the meet. The reason for this is found in the fact that the Kansas City high schools do not have these events and they would be hounded if they were counted. The other runs where two separate races are run each counting the regular points. This is made necessary because of the large number of entries in this event.
COME HERE FROM COLUMBIA
Most of the students who will come for this meet were in Columbia last week for the meet which the University of Missouri held for the high school folks. Kansas students their chance to show that Academy a good time and Manager Hamilton is leaving no steps unturned to see that his institution properly taken care of. In this work he must depend to a great extent on the students of K. U. and it is to them that he is looking to get the men lined up for K. U. next fall.
The list of men who received invitations to the big meet are given below in order that students may be able to find a man or two whom he will look after and see that he is given special care when he is a leader of the Kansas City enlisted军校. He will not be received yet but will be published as soon as received. The list of invitations include: Clarence Williams, Mount Vernon, Mo.; Barrett Castle, St. Joseph, Mo.; Walter and Crigges, Latham; Powell Carson and Grikes, Wichita; Roosevelt Attie, Gross, Jaye; Horse, Alma; Simpson, Barnard; Hunter, Rutford and Carson, Sumner County; Michael, Eaton and Jones, Neodeshia; Lashmet and Moore, Humboldt; Gaston, Pratt County; Grissom Syracuse; McKinley, Seranton; Colo. Olsen; Taylor, Ivan; Colo. Ilsa andaskell, Abilene; Evans, Osage Atwood, Gardner; Kicks, Mt. Hope, Neely, Enterprise, Faskett, Boner Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. P, C. Young, of Freddonia visit Saturday, and Sunday with their daughter Marissa (Mary Fate) "the Stuff of Laughter" and the "Stuff of Laughter"
Gladys Robinson. '18 College, is enjoying a visit from her mother Mrs. J. H. Robinson of Chanute.
Send the Daily Kansan home to the folks.
JUNIORS TO PUBLISH
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 16, 1916.
JUNIORS TO PUBLISH CONTRIBUTORS' NAMES
Collections for the junior memorial fund have been nearly completed "All the money is to be turned in within a few days," said Willard M Glaseo, chairman of the junior memorial fund committee this morning.
DEVELOPS EVERGREENS
"Those juniors who have promised to pay their dues and have not done so," he continued, "can turn their hands over to me. If they want to have them do so then I can close up my books and turn the money over to the registrar for next year. A list of names of those who have paid their dues will be published in a few days."
"Gym Exercises Make Marked Improvement in Freshmen" H. A. Lorenz
The required gym work for University freshmen is having its desired constructive effect. Recent remeasurements of a large number of first year men have shown that the physical exercise they are required to take has made a marked improvement in their physical make up.
H. A. Lorenz, instructor in physical education, said this morning that in over ninety per cent of the cases examined the men of the freshman class have been greatly improved physically and mentally, while few cases there has been no noticeable improvement, but this is partially the result of illness.
At the beginning of the year all freshman men were given physical examinations in order that proper corrective exercises might be assigned to them. The first time these were made in an attempt to discover the effect the exercise is having.
In order to procure further data on the effects of certain exercises upon the participants, Mr. Lorenz has been taking his gym classes down to McCook field and working the men out in the shot-put, high jump, 100-yard dash and other events of the regular track and field program. Because the athletes are well trained and the fact that the athletic field has been needed for Varsity practice, Mr. Lorenz has not been able to continue his work during the past week.
As a whole, the data procured this year has been entirely gratifying to the effort made, and the instructors of physical education now have "black and white" proof of their theories concerning the constructive effects of properly supervised exercise.
INVITATIONS ARE HERE
Seniors Can Get Them at Check Stand This Week
The senior invitations are ready—2,000 of them. They will be distributed to the seniors who have ordered them Thursday, Friday and Monday mornings at the Fraser Hall check stand from 10:30 to 12:30. Like the Jayhawkers, there is a security of invitation chairman, of the invitation committee, there are only seventy orders that have not already been disposed of.
The invitations this year are printed with both leather and paper covers on which appears a picture of the Dyke Museum, Views of Fowler Shops, Green Hall and a panorama of the campus are contained in the three-fold insert of the invitation along with the engraved invitation, commencement program, list of class officers and names of the graduates.
TWO TRY FOR WEST POINT
Kenneth Wright and George Woodward Seek Appointment
Kenneth Wright, '17 Engineer and a Private in Company M is designated to take the preliminary examination, given at Topeka May 18. Twenty-eight men, one from each militia organization over the state will take the examination, the three receiving the highest grades will take the regular examination, along with representatives from the other states, the final two appointments will be made July 10. Of those taking the regular examination, twenty-two will receive appointments to West Point.
George (Rook) Woodward, freshman engineer was given the appointment from the downtown hospital corps by Major Phillips.
Due to the increase in the army, the number of appointments to West Point has been increased. The places are on a strictly competitive basis and Captain Jones says the ones getting appointments will earn them as the final examination will be very severe.
Mrs. Barnes Mosa of Shanghai, China has arrived in Lawrence and is visiting her son, Sidney Moss, '16 Law, at the Kanza house.
K. U. BEAT NORMALS
Poirier Pitched a Shut-Out and The Teachers Lost 3 to 0
CRAIG OUT ON INJURIES
Kansas Fielding Was Feature of
Maybe it was just because they were thinking they were playing Missouri, but anyway Coach McCarthy's Jayhawker baseball athletes handed the good 3 to him and good 0 beating during their afternoon visit to Emporia yesterday.
Week of May 15 to 19
Leader: The Rev. Paul Dansing;
berg, Pastor All Soils Unitarian
church, Kansas City Mo.
the Game
MORNING PRAYERS
Connie Poirier, proved the hero of the affair, allowing the teachers only to fire them. The tine innings. Only one Employee got as far as third base. With Red Craig again suffering from a retreated knuckle when she showing yesteryear skills, she justly started him in one of the Missouri championship games this week-end.
Only four hits were made by Captain Wandell's men off Rehm, the Emperor. One of those was for two bases and a total of three jawhawkers 'uns was the result.
The score by innings: R H
K. U. .. 100 100 100-3 4 4
Normals .. 000 000 000-0 4 4
Batteries: K. U, Poirier and U
Weltm, Normals, Rehn and Long
fellow.
CATALOG REPUTATIONS
Engineering Faculty Keep Card Index of Students'
Records
A personal record of the students is the latest innovation to be introduced by the engineering faculty. The record, which is filed in card index form, consists, first of all, of permanent mail address, age, date of entrance and graduation, and other routine matters. It even includes the average state of health of the student while in school, together with a note on the kind of position he wants and the degree obtained. The grades for all his subjects are filed and kept for reference on these cards as well as in the office files.
This grading will be of great value to a prospective employer looking for an engineer. The grade on character must be high enough to get along with his fellows; in industry, the system of his work is considered; while in initiative and judgment, care is taken to give no credit to the engineer and is expected previous experience. By a glance at this card the employer may know just what he may expect of the engineer if he hires him and may rely upon the degree instructors in basing his opinion.
Wednesday: "And But for You."
Thursday: "The Dread of Respondi-
ness."
But the new feature is the personal record kept for reference and furnished to a prospective employee. Once a semester six instructors grade each student upon his character, native ability, industry, accuracy, reliability, judgment, initiative, personal appearance, and use of English. The grades of these instructors, which run from 1 to 9 correspond in a number of ways; their severity are averaged and the amount is noted on the card. At his graduation, the student's grades are averaged for the four years and filed.
Further plans for the semi-centennial celebration will be put off until next year. This was decided at a meeting of the executive board of the semi-center, and it will be morning in the Chancellor's office.
Having it next year will make it a year late. The committee will decide next fall on the nature of the celebration. It will probably be held during commencement next year.
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Subjects:
Probably no man with a good record at the University will be denied a position by an employee. The system did not originate here and no one in it could engage in such a know where is came from. Manhattan has used it for some time as well as several of the larger schools. When the University decided to adopt it the faculty of the School of Englengish had been established and then selected this one as the most nearly fitting their needs.
Fanny: "The Power of Expectancy."
Wednesday: "And But For You"
PLAN CANOE REGATTA
Water Carnival With Races To Be Staged Saturday Morning on Kaw
PLAN SIX EVENTS IN ALL
Opportunity for Any K. U. Bond Owner to Compete
Although the annual water carnival which has been a feature of the commencements weeks of the past has been canceled for 1916, this spring will not pass without the many canoe owners among students having a chance to show their ability on the water.
J. F. Troutman, sophomore College, announced today the details of a canoe regatta which will be staged Saturday morning on the Kaw river from Duluth to Tahoe. With Dr. James Naismith, Prof. E. Uputman, E. J. Pierson, and H. A. Lorenz, in charge of the details, Troutman said this morning that it was expected that at least thirty canoes would be entered and that so success would the regatta prove that if it were made an annual K. U. at fair.
A total of six events, men's singles 300 yards; men's doubles 440 yards; mixed doubles 100 yards; war chest 88 yards; cinder blocks 95 yards; and baskets are recalculated, place will count for three points and second place two points, and the individual or team scoring the highest in both points will be awarded a loving cup.
The time set for starting is 9:30 a'clock Saturday morning and the finish line will be at the Tennessee street pier. Entries can be made either with Naisimh or with coumarin. Dr. Naisimh Kentucky street, Bristol, W. of the weekend, 2223 W. of the weekend high water was reached this morning, there is little chance that flood conditions on the river will interfere with the regatta.
SEARCH FOR MERMAIDS
Women's Tournament Finals To Be Held Thursday Night
The preliminaries for the Women's Interclass swimming meet will be held at the Robinson Gymnastics Hall. The meet will be held Thursday night at 8 o'clock with the following events: 1. Side stroke 50 feet, breast stroke 50 feet, back stroke 50 feet. Contestant may enter only one of
2. 100-foot dash—any stroke
3. Dlunge for distance
4. Diving (Compulsory); standing front, running front, running swan.
5. Pancy diveing (voluntary)
6. Palcy
Judges: Dr. James Naismith, Dr. Alice Goetz, Miss Marsh Laird, Dr. Alice Goetz, Miss Marsh Laird,
All girls entering events 1 and 2 must enter the preliminaries and sign up at the Gym before 4 o'clock Wednesday. All entering the other events must sign up before 6 o'clock Thursday. The pool is open to all students until midday on Thursday. This is an inter-class competition and the points made by each woman will go to the showing of her class in the meet
The University orchestra under the direction of J. C. McCanlies, will give its spring concert in Fraser Hall Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Prof. W. B. Downing and William J. Dalton will assist the organization with a vocal solo and a violoncello number. Student tickets admit.
Annual Spring Concert To Be Given Thursday Night
ORCHESTRA WILL PLAY
The program follows:
Marche Hongroise...H. Berloiz
Overture Le Macon...Auber
Ballet, Diversetition, from "Henry"
Violin Solo, Liebesfreund... Kreisler
Miss Florence Cook
Miss Florence Cook
Violin School, Blooming,
Violino cello, Kol Nidel, Brush
(2) Scherzetto
VIII" ... Saint Saens
(1) Danse de la Gipsy
(3) Gigue et Final
Overture, Rosamunde . . F. Schubert
Prelude und Mazeurus from Coppelia
Selection from Comic Opera
... Sirmay-Kollo
Erott Lame spent Sunday visiting friends in Kansas City.
Hobart Hogue, '19 Engineer, enjoyed a visit from his mother, Mrs. Nannie Hogue of Olathe, Saturday.
Mrs. Frank Auswald of Kansas City visited her daughter, Frances College '19 and attended the May Fete Saturday.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH IS MOST POPULAR IN K.
The department of English appears from the records in the Registrar's office to be more popular with the students than any of the other departments of languages. The number of majors in each department are as follows: English 122, German 68 Latin 33 and Greek . A large number of majors in these subjects intend to teach in high schools in the state.
Many reasons are given by students who change their major during their junior year. Some persons change in order to teach other subjects, others become interested in other departments. One student's reason for changing was "For enjoyment's sake." Some students complain about not understanding the rule for selecting majors and consequently they pick the wrong subjects. This gives them a great deal of trouble on.
ONLY FORMAL IN NAME
Freshmen and Sophomore Women The Men of the Hour Thursday Night
Mystery? deep and hazy mystery shrouds the details of the affair to be given Saturday night in Robinson Gymnasium. Trust woman to find a woman if she particularly wants others of her kind. The hostesses of this Spring Formal for women do want all the women of the University to attend, so the first party of its kind ever held at the University of Kansas.
"We would like to see every girl in the University at the dance," said Miss Gladys Elliott this morning, "if you are an upper class woman and fail to get an invitation from a freshman or sophomore just ask some other upper class woman and send in your name to me before Thursday or Friday. We hope to make this Women's Sprin formal an institution at K. U. and an institution that will bring all of us together in a spirit of congeniality. I hope the girls will get their invitations early, so the refreshment committee will know how many they must serve, for we are going to have good eats."
Not a word of the surprise would Miss Elliott disclose. Some there are who say it will be a rival of the Soph hippie in brilliancy of entertainment. At Athens, where they were all will they bring to interest all who come whether they care to dance or not. Freshman and sopomone women who are the escorts are planning to wear dark skirts and shirt waists to imitate men the sophomore is wearing; dress will be in keeping with the spirit of the party. Some of the classes will appear in costume.
Oh Those Lights.
BR-R—TWAS COLD FOR SHOSTAC LAUGHTER Oh Those Lights.
Percy, with his cap and bells, and Chauncy, with his arms full of swords, armor and gauze dresses fluttered wildly around the co-ed dressing rooms at the improvised Greek theatre. I said co-eed—the they had two walls—if they had been on other side the audience could have—but, anyway the Potter Lake embankment helps protect the artist's costumes, such as Spring, the power house and various clumps of bushel/ did duty.
Perhaps the audience was a trifle chilly, who can say? but the actors were partial to raincoats and shawls during their less strenuous moments. The earth served for tables and chairs and as for mirrors, they weren't Nevertheless the actors managed to get on the stage properly when the beetles swarmed around them to manage; they had to be whirlup and hallowed at on the changes. Otherwise the electricians did excel lentily.
Did the audience notice the recessionals and processionals through the dark forest? The actors did. Some of the stubble is only two inches high but oftener it is six. The "tarn" the trolls crawled through reminded them slightly of the studded couches the Hindu does pennance on.
For a first nighter all the lines were good but if the cues had been longer the audience could have seen them. Some had to be coaxed. Some pulled and some pushed onto the stage acclimatized, but then three methods had to be resorted to to get Percy's curtain. Maybe tonight he will make a little speech for us.
Dean F. W, Blackmar will deliver a commencement address at, Ramona, Coventry, VA.
Mrs. Dave Evans of Edgerton spent Saturday and Sunday with her son Bob at the Alpha Chi Sigma house.
Several of the senior students of the School of Pharmacy will go to Kansas City, Kannas, Thursday, May 16 to the state board examination.
TRUTH ABOUT THE CIG
Chemistry Professors Discuss Scientifically Effects on Smokers
SAY EVIL IS EXAGGERATED
Find Garicette Tobacco Less Harmful Than Other Forms
"A cigarette is less harmful than any other form of smokes." This statement about the much maligned "coffin-nail" was made yesterday to a Kansan reporter by a professor in the department of chemistry, who is privately upon telephone and its effects on the human system. "The objection to cigarette smoking," he said, "is largely a psychological one, for the cigarette does not contain the large amount of nicotine that it is popularly supposed to have by the uninitiated. The analysis of cigarette tobacco shows that ninety per cent of cigarettes are destroyed and destroyed in the end of the cigarette, and that the remaining amount may be less than one per cent.
HARMLESS AS A HOT STOVE
BLAKENESS AS A HOT STOVE
The poisonous effects that result from combustion which cause to the formation of carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas which results from incomplete combustion during smoking. The amount of the poisonous gas thus formed however, is so very small that it is not as injurious to the smoker as is being seated in a room by a red hot stove."
Further expert testimony was obtained from a professor in the school of pharmacy, who has done extensive research on the subject of the physiological effects of tobacco. The sore throat which most cigarette smokers have" he said, "is due to glycerine—the same product that is used in face creams and other cosmetic products but put into tobacco to create it pliable and soft. When the cigarette is burned this glycerine is converted into acrolein, which is irritating to the mucous membrane."
"Cigarette tobacco, however, is much lighter than other tobaccoes because it contains less tarry constituents than pipe tobacco. A pipe is a very filthy form of a smoke because the stem stores up this tarry matter along with other distillation products which come from the burning tobacco. Many have an erroneous idea that cigarette papers are injurious to health and should be bleached them. There is absolutely no difference in the effect, and from a physiological standpoint the chemicals would improve them."
DANGER NOT IN CIGARETTE
Dean L. E., Sayre, of the school of pharmacy, said when asked for an opinion, "The reason cigarettes are likely to be injurious is not due to the cigarette itself but because of its convenience and ease with which it can be smoked." It is a greater temptation to smoke more frequently, but even then the cigarette is not as injurious as other smokes because cigarette tobacco is much lighter than other tobacco.
"Of course," continued the dean, "if people will smoke large quantities of tobacco in any form it will produce poisoning. If we give people in large quantities, for in that case indigestion results, and from indigestion comes poison which gradually accumulates, and which may result in forms of auto-infexication or vomiting, more so in extreme—much more so in fact than is experienced by a moderate smoker.
THE JOURNALISTS ELECT
Officers Selected This Morning For Coming Year
Edwin Hullinger, president; Jack Carter, vice president; Vaughn Timmins, men's secretary; Dolce Bovory, treasurer and Herbert Laslett, sergeant at arms, the candidates elected in today's annual election of men.
Following is the result of today's election:
President, Edwin Hallinger 63;
Vice president, Paul Brindel 33;
Senior staff, John W. Blake
Men's secretary, Ralph Curry 11;
Yaeshim Timmins 3; Lloy White 11;
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Women's secretary, Alice Bowly 50: Gall Hall 24.
Treasurer, Marie Buchanan 31; Dorothy Cole 44.
Sergeant at arms, Herbert Laslett 61.
Prof. Hunter Ill in Denver
Word was received yesterday from Prof. S. J. Hunter, of the department of etymology, who has been in Colorado for the last two months on accrual. His wife was seriously ill. His wife and daughter left for Denver last night.