UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
NUMBER 122
TO MINE ON MT. OREAD
Engineering Students Are Planning to Drill Under Campus
VEIN LIES UNDER STONE
To Be Worked By Students for Practical Experience
K. U. is to have a coal mine on the campus. Prof. A. C. Terrill of the department of mining engineering has obtained permission for the students in that department to drive a truck under the campus grounds given evidence in meeting the various problems that confront the miner in his work.
While the location of the tunnel has not as yet been definitely determined, Professor Terrill said this morning he would drop the tunnel south and a little east of Haworth Hall, and that they would run it in along a four inch coal vein that is said to lie under the Oral road that crops out on top of the campus.
That the University may be supplied or partly supplied, with coal is a possibility of the future. While the four inch vein is not essential to the proposition, Professor Terrill and other members of the geoalgy and mining faculty are of the opinion that there is a vein of coal which may be eightteenth or twenty inches thick.
MAY SUPPLY COAL LATER
Just how far down this second vein is, is a mooted question at Haworth Hall. Professor Haworth thinks that the second vein may be found at the foot of the hill, while others think it may be necessary to sink 180 feet before it is found.
STUDENTS DO ALL THE WORK
The students who will work in the tunnel will do all their own timbering, mucking, tramming, drill sharpening, blasting, etc., and the experience they will gain in this way will be of great value to them later.
The plan of having a school mine for the students in mining engineering is not a new one. Schools of mines at several sites have their help in which to work.
Laws to Celebrate Annual Birth day Banquet for Dean Green
UNCLE JIMMY DAY APRIL 4
The prospecting for the small veil will probably begin as soon as the ground rides up a hill and the drilling down to work, as most of the equipment that will be needed is already in the department of mining. A new forge has just been added to the department, and will be complementing the drills used in the mine.
Uncle Jimmy Green will have a birthday party Tuesday evening, April 4. It is the twelfth annual banquet which the students of the School of Law have given in honor of their Dean. He will be 74 years old.
Uncle Jimmy has been dean of the school since 1878. He has seen the school outgrow its quarters there and be installed in the new Green Hall erected in his honor in 1904. From on, it has been increasing rapidly.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, 1916
Dean Green first acquired the title of Uncle Jimmy in 1896. Because of the universal admiration for him among the students, the name became popular at once. Albard beat Berqert University at Tulsa in 1905, was the first student to call the venerable dean Uncle Jimmy to his face.
The banquet to be given in his honor will be held at the Eldridge House at 8 o'clock. Former banquets have been well attended. Last year 110 attended to honor Dean Green celebrate his seventy-third birthday.
BIRD-BATHS, GVEN BY
CLASS OF '03, HERE
two more senior memorials will be placed upon the campus in the near future. They are in the form of birdhats and were given to the University by the class of '03. They did not arrive until last fall and as Mr. John M. Shea, superintendent of the grounds, did not arrive during the winter months they have remained in the University repair shop.
One of these memorials will be placed by the side of the stone bench given by the class of 1915, the other in front of the east entrance of Praser
The bird-baths are of terra-cotta and consist of a hollow basin thirty inches in diameter resting upon a thirty-four-inch pedestal.
Neva Watson, '15 College, arrived Friday from Minneapolis to visit Amy and Beth Kincaid and other friends. As the new president of this year on account of her health,
Send the Daily Kansan home to the folks.
Plain Tales from the Hill
A certain fraternity that put in a spring garden is reveling over the recent rains. It's an all ill wind that blows nobody good.
There's sixty girls with sixty curls In K. U.'s. Passing Show;
So fall in line and save each dime Until it's time to go.
Jo Williams, a student at K. S. A. C., is visiting with his sister, Daisy L. Williams, "16 College.
Harold Mack, of the School of Law,
created considerable amusement for his classmates Friday morning. After borrowing "Shorty" Strothers' crutches, he seated himself upon the rock before the bulletin board and played the role of a blind crippled beggar to perfection.
Miss Orena Durnel, '19 College, has been called to her home in Joplin, Mo. because of the illness of her father.
Shorty Strothers, 16 Law, left Fri-
der. We know where he will consult his physician.
The most popular place on the campus to entertain visitors is Dyche Museum, judging from the crowds that go there. One of the most frequent remarks made, other than that in admiration of the displays, is a query as to the reason for the maliorousness of the basement.
Dr. Alice Goetz of the department of physical training, has started the advance aesthetic dancing class on one of the most difficult aspects which is to be given in the Greek Pagent at the time of the May Fete.
Students are not daunted by the heavy curtains which are now hanging in front of the large doors on the first floor of the museum. Out of town visitors however approach the building and timidly wonder if they dare enter.
Dr. C. S. Huffman, of Columbus, who attended the Republican State convention at a peka, visited his headquarters, Mona Chara, night night at the Sigma Kappa house.
Miss Helen Murphy, who was a student at the University last year, and is now teaching at Jarbalo, visited sister Adele Murphy, Friday.
An interest in aesthetic dancing is shown by Pattie Hattle, '18 College, in the collection of pictures of famous dancers. Recently, when she attended the Russian Ballet in Kansas City Mo., she returned with a series of pictures of the Russian dancers which nowiment the walls of her room
Oscar S. Stauffer, a former student in journalism, is now the editor and owner of the Peabody, Kan., Gazette-Herald. Mr. Stauffer consolidated the Peabody Gazette and the Peabody Herold.
Even the kodak fiends are affected by the war in Europe for the prices used in the process of developing have advanced several dollars a pound.
The squirrels in Lawrence are finding the nice soft cotton which has been placed around the elm trees to stop the canker worms very convenient for lining their nests. They are frequently seen tearing out great mouthfuls of the cotton and climbing up the trees with it. The result is that the work of stopping the bugs is being seriously hampered.
Misa Genevieve Searla, of Oskaloosa, will Friday to visit at the Alpha Chi Omega.
There is definite proof that a rain storm is almost equal to a cut as far as the work of the class is concerned. Friday morning, during the storm, the class in Newspaper on the roof of the noise of the rain on the roof above, which made it impossible for any lecture to be carried on.
One of those little, mysterious, round silver boxes over which the feminine students have a monopoly, caused some disturbance in Prof. T. E. Sisson's class the other day. It slipped from the owner's hand, tingled down on the floor, sprung a leak, and distributed a generous amount of "face-whitening" over the brown, varped boards.
The freshmen of the Sigma Kappa oratory gave a party Saturday evening for the upper classmien.
The Michigan Student Union building will be torn down in about four months and a new home for the men that University will be erected at once.
Harold De Benham and Omar Hodges, who were on the Hill last semester, returned Friday for the Pi Uplon fraternity's "Dublin" party.
In an endeavor to find the week spots in the paper the Daily Nebraska offers a dollar for every good knock against the college paper.
H. H. LEAGUE WONT DIE
Passers of "86" Will Mee Thursday to Re-Organ-
LIMIT TEAMS ENTERED?
Too Many Clubs For Facilities To Make New Rules
The Hash House League will be reorganized at a meeting to be held in the Daily Kansan office at 7:30 Thursday evening. Former Hash House players do not want to let the organization die, in spite of the fact that it has not adequate facilities for playing.
Some method for limiting the number of teams entered will probably be devised, in order that the schedule may be properly carried out. Last year twenty-four teams were entered and the year before that sixteen. With the small number of diamonds available, it was almost impossible to run off the schedule properly. Games were eight and six, in all places, from Woodland to the sloping sides of Mount Oread.
It is believed, however, that with a limited number of entrants, in a single division, and with a penalty in cash for forfeiture, and stringent rules, much of the confusion can be obviated.
Ways and means will be discussed
on Sunday, the next day night, which
is open to all comers.
ANNOUNCE FARCE CAST
Every Class In University Is Represented In Soph Hop
Farce
The cast of the Soph Hop farce, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" was announced this morning by Dix Edwards, chairman of the farce committee, following tryouts held in Robinson Gymnasium last Thursday and Friday. Every class in the University is represented in the cast, which is as follows:
Solo Singer...Paul Sautter
"Matteine Boy"...Ray Gafney
Solo Dance...Bud Gray
Chicago Comedian...Gary Wheat
Blackface Comedians..Brad Wain, Eau
Men
Women
gene Dyer like Rider...Frank Miller
$olo Singer ... Adrance Jim
$oubrette ... Gladys Bitzer
$olo Dancer ... Helen Topping
*Beauty Contest Girls*". Patti Hart,
Parts will be given out and the first rehearsal conducted at a meeting of the cast to be held on the main playing floor of Robinson Gymnasium at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday after three times a week thereafter.
The first chorus rehearsal was held last. Friday afternoon and a second occurs today. The twenty girls who compose the chorus meet with Miss Gladys Elliott, chorus director, and conductor for three songs in the play. Chorus rehearsals will be held three times a week here after.
Oral Plank
In accordance with a resolution adopted by the Laboratory Section of of the American Public Health Association which met at Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1918, a committee of which Prof. B. S. Bailey is a member recently proposed new standard for the analysis of water and sewerage.
PROVIDES NEW STANDARD FOR WATER ANALYSIS
FACULTY CLASS ENDS
The outline provides complete specifications for the detection of all deleterious substances and also gives instructions on how to sample to be sent to the board.
VIDES NEW FOR WATER ANALYSIS
The outline has been prepared by the leading chemists of several Universities of which a former Kansasman, Edward Bartow, is chairman. Their report is to be presented for ratification to the American Chemical Society which meets April 17-18 at Urbana, Ill.
Shirley Stith, from Atlanta, Georgia, stopped off on his way to California and visited friends the first part of this week. He was much imitated by the campus, but things it would be too windy for him to get about safely.
A. M. Kent, a lawyer from Pleasanton, visited his daughter, Clara, 116 College, Wednesday. He was en route to the Republican convention attending a Republican Convention.
Eddie Mahan, the famous Harvard man who for three years was named on the All American Football team, is now at the University of California next fall.
Fair tonight and Tuesday, warmer tonight, and east and south portior Tuesday.
Women Instructors and Employees Take Last Workout in Gym Tonight
ATTENDANCE IS LARGE
Many Appear Every Monday
Evening to Dance and Swim
The faculty women's gym class, made up of the K. U, faculty instructors, employees, and wives of faculty men, will hold its last meeting of the school year tonight at the usual hours, 7:30 to 9 p. m.
That the faculty women are interested in women's athletics is emphasized by the fact that ever since last fall an average of over thirty has been climbing the hill, in the late evening, once the daylight ends. Miss Gladys Elliott, and to learn swimming sport from Miss Hazel Pratt.
Since the fifty faculty women enrolled in this work have shown such interest in the course, the class will be continued next year.
SWIMMING IS CONTINUED
SWIMMING IS ODDS
The course is a swimming by Miss Pruse and her assistant Miss M Jones, will not be discontinued, however, and all faculty women may enroll for a third term of water-splashing, which will end June 1. Some of the best of the swimmers are, Miss Pauline McCatherine of the business department, Miss Maud Miller, piano instructor, and Miss Jane Instructor. Many of the women are expert divers and use several different strokes.
The floor work, as taught by Miss Ellott consists of folding dances, games such as medicine ball, broncho tag, aesthetic dancing and calisthenics, and starts prompts 7:36. After 8:20 the dancers are given. STORY INCLUDED IN CLASS
The names of the faculty women, who are interested enough in women's athletes to climb the hill once a week, in the dark evening, swing dumbles, dance and dive are: Henneret Turner, Maude S. Spencer, Mrs. F. H. Bilt, Maude S. Spencer, Mrs. F. H. Bilt, M尧 Allen, Cinderella Carter, Josephine M. Burnham, Grace Hay, Elise Bradley, Sara Laird, Avis Gwim, Anne Gittins, Maria W. Carter, Emily Swick, Mrs. H. W. Humble, Pauline McCatherine, Orpha Wilbur, Mrs. A. Geo H. Wood, Estella Foster, Zigar Martin, Fern Evans, Bertha Babberger, Helen Keith, May Stevenson, Amalia Voha, Anna Reanick, Maud Miller, Maria Benson, Bertha Okison Thyrsag W., Anna G, Anna M, Mrs Wula Sweeler, Josephine Newman Elder Koege, Anna Roberts, Anna Richards Elma Stewart, Ethel Mull, Myrtle Greenfield and Avis Talcott.
P. HAWORTH IN HOSPITAL
Lawrence Man With British Army III in Cairo, Egypt
Prof. Erasmus Haworth of the department of geology has received word that his son Paul, who is an officer in the Australian army is still in Cairo, Egypt. He has been in the hospital again. This time it is illness and not Turkish bullets that sent him there.
Haworth, a Lawrence man, was in Australia when the war broke out. He enlisted in the Australian volunteers and was sent to the Dardanelles where he received a bullet wound in the wrist which sent him to Egypt. Since that time he has been in the commissary department.
The contest for the best essays on "The Song of the Lark, by W. Silbert Cather, authorized by the Houghton, Mifflin Company, has brought out a most interesting collection of opinionated graduates who competed were very evidently in sympathy with the ambition of Thea Kronberg, the heroine of the story, to rise from being a little girl in a mining camp with yellow pigtails and a broad, determined face, and a broad, determined face, of a singer in the big world.
WOMEN WRITE ESSAYS
IN PRIZE COMPETITION
The first prize has been awarded to Miss Kathryn Peck, of Columbia University, and the second to Miss Amelia McMaster of Bymaw Maw. Several young women of the University of Pennsylvania were entered in the thousands of essays that were entered, they failed to win one of the coveted first places.
Carl S. Newman, '18, from Dightor has been piedged by Allemania.
Guido Smith, Roy Stalter, Jack Hutton, and H. T. Parr were elected to the Forty Club, at the meeting Wednesday night. The next meeting will be on April 5 to elect officers for the coming year.
DRAMATIC CLUB STARTS
WORK ON APRIL PLAYS
Work has begun on the plays to be given in April by the K. U. Dramatic Club. Two plays will be presented under the direction of Dora Lockett, middle Law. The casts for these plays have not been selected yet.
"Interest and willingness on the part of every one to do his part," said Prof. Arthur MacMurray, of the department of Public Speaking, "is shown by every member of the club." He just meets more than seventy-five were present.
This will make the twelfth play that has been presented this year, and Prof. MacMurray says that visitors are always welcome.
VOTE ON FRENCH BABIES
Fraternities Will Decide Tonight Whether They Wish to Adopt War Victims
REASONS PRO AND CON
Dinner Table Campaign Conducted by Both Sides
Praterity meetings on the Hill put out 'out' to an unusual length toning
Sundry reasons are being given pro and con for adopting a French baby. The opposition have united on the importance of teaching enough but that there are better ways to accomplish this end than adopting sight unseen some sickly little half-starved foreigner who for all they want to up into an anarchist or safe cracker.
At any rate the baby agitators in the different fraternities have a flock of fine reasons for their anticipated step. "A little child shall lead them," quote others while some of the sympathizers are simply philanthropists.
"But," says the opposition, "what in the Sam Hill do we want with a baby? If it were a little pig or a white rabbit it would be different. But it will not be. It is big enough to fight, then goes to college and joins a frat and forever remains in that helpless baby stage—it is too much responsibility to wish upon our children."
"Let us content ourselves with those in our midst and cease all discussion," plead those most weary with the weighty problem.
And so the brothers ramble on arriving at no conclusion, but tonight the box is to be passed and the name and future of a dozen wretched little war orphans will or will not be decided.
At the present time there are about 150,000 of these fatherless babies in France, all of good families who have been financially ruined. The French women who are now working as nurses a day but this sum is insufficient to support them. Two English women are now working in Kansas City for the benefit of these war babies, and it is through them that the gift of a woman has been extended to the frater-nilies.
ALLOWED TO NAME CHILD
ALLOWED TO NAME CHILD
The foster father of the infant is given in return for supporting the right to pick the family from which the child shall be taken and the choice of its name. The expenses will amount to a dime a day over a period optional with the adopters.
Final proof that spring has come was seen Wednesday afternoon, when students toiling up the Hill to 13:08 p.m. took to the maze of gently free from afternoon classes, joyously cleaning off the winter's collection of dead grasses and sticks from his lawn. The street was filled with flames as children played in pile of brush clipped from the hedge.
Willard Hilton, "18 College, intends to spend Saturday and Sunday at his home in Cottonwood Falls. It has been three weeks since he was born, and another month before Easter vacation, he thinks it would be too long to wait.
After Olin Deibert had taken a picture of the 8:30 biology class, from the rear of the room Prof. M. Rees turned to the class and said: "What thinks the class is better looking from the back than from the front."
MORNING PRAYERS
Week March 27-31
General subject, "The Human and Divine Touch."
Daily subjects
1. Prayer.
Tuesday: "Postulates of Prayer."
2. Results.
JAYHAWKERS WIN CUP
Wednesday: "The Touch with God."
Thursday: "The Touch from God."
3. Illustrations—Friday
Kansas Relay Team Wins
Trophy From Missouri on
St. Louis Track
GET REVENGE ON TIGERS
Track Stars From All Over the Country Appear in Meet
(by Cargill Sproull.) And Kansas got revenge.
Radford Pittam and the three other quarter milers on Schulte's relay team failed to repeat their performance of last week and the Jayhawker at the Missouri Valley Conference relay race in St. Louis Saturday night.
It was not a case of the Tigers failing to run a good relay. It was only that Hamilton's quartet ran like they were playing it, and the result showed it. There were no bad touches, no bad starts and no bad trains. The training of the past week in getting good touches showed to them how much the Tigers never had a look in.
CUP NOW AT ALLIE'S
Along with the honor of winning this event goes a large loving cup. This year it happened that the cup offered for the Missouri-Kansas relay was almost twice as large as the cups offered to the winners of the other dual relays. This may be attributed to the fact that Hutsell, a former Missouri star middle distance man, had charge of the selection of trophies. It is rumored that Hutsell might play in the Tiger trophy room in Rotherwil Gymnasium so he bought an unusually large one. But now it may be seen in Allie Carroll's window—clear over here in Kansas.
Although all the schools in the conference were invited to run in the Conference relay held by the Missouri Athletic Association in the St. Louis region, Kansas accepted . Kansas accepted because she wanted revenge from the dual meet last week; Missouri because she was confident she could win a second time. But Missouri undressed the strength of the Kansas team.
TOOK LEAD EARLY
The race was much the same as that run last week. Elliott took a ten-yard lead on Eaton early in his quarter of the mile and gave Campion from a bad knee and running against a good man, Daggy, give O'Leary an even start with Wyatt. These two fought hard for a lap until O'Leary dropped behind a couple of yards. But O'Leary had to go forward in one of the third quarter neck and neck. Here they found Pittam and Rodkey waiting for a chance to get started on the final three laps. But O'Leary did not have to it on Rodkey because he ran over another man was on his tires and gone five yards before Pittam got underway. From then on it was only a question of how hard Rodkey would have to run to stay ahead. Pittam fought hard to catch the feeling Jayhawker and was to shards behind at the finish.
But the deciding relay will have to come on the outdoor track, probably at Des Moines April 22. Both teams have won one "heat." Now the indoor season has closed so the outdoor track will have to be resorted to for future settlement of the argument. These two teams will have three chances to fight it out on the outdoor track: one team will win the final meet in Columbia; and the last in the Valley meet in Columbia. Perhaps they may meet in the Western Conference meet in Chicago or the Penn Games in Philadelphia.
OUTCLASSED IN OTHER EVENTS
As for the events on the M. A. C, program in which Kansas men took part not much can be said. Trewekke took a third place in the high jump behind Jo Loomis, C. A. C., and Frizzell, Kansas Aggie. The other events were three distance runs but the Kane team had a winning record of their class. Fiske ran a good race in the 600 yards which Ebry, the conqueror of Meredith, in 1:15.2.
Mason of the University of Illinois and Joie Ray of the Illinois Athletic Club ran the most spectacular races in the series, special "Ball man" in 4:21. Ray tripped and fell a few yards in front of the tape and failed to place in the event. Herriott of Kansas fought against her two stars was too much for him.
In the 1,000 yard run Sproull and Grady placed fourth and fifth, respectively, but were unable to get into the medal class. Earl Eby and Joe Ray repeated in this event and took the third place with a twenty yard handicap finished third. Sproull and Grady started from the seven yard handicap line.
Margarette Hart, '19 College, from Raton, New Mexico, is expecting her mother to visit her next Wednesday.