UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 121
VOLUME XIIJ
POLITICS WAKES UP
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 24, 1916.
Longing Eyes Turn Toward Student Council, Athletic Board and Cheerleader Jobs
CANDIDATES START EARLY
Election Comes May 4; Search for Available Men Is On
Spring politics has begun to buzz. Although the election does not come until May 4, students are beginning to cast their eyes over the list of jobs and likely graft and before long students will be "urged by their friends" to become candidates for offices on the Men's Student Council, Athletic Board, College and Engineering schools and cheerleader.
MUST GET PETITIONS
Members of the Student Council must conform to the rules of eligibility for organizations other than athletic, and the officers of the council must have been enrolled in the university's semesters previous to their election.
Any person may become a candidate for the council who meets these requirements and who secures the signatures of twenty-five electors of his school on petition. Candidates for positions of president, vice-president, and secretary of the council shall have on petitions the signatures of seventy-five electors in the University, not fewer than one third of those from any one school. Petitions must be handed to the president of the Council by 6 o'clock on the evening of Friday preceding the election.
PRESENT COUNCILMEN
For the Athletic Association, five student councilmen members are elected, three athletic members and three Athletic A cheerleader to be elected at the general spring election. Each school elects a president, vice-president and a secretary-treasurer.
The present Student Council is composed of the following men:
NINE MEN TO SIGMA XI
President, Leland Thompson; vicepresident, Ames Rogers; secretary-treasurer, Howard Adams; councillor representing the College, Bruce Shomber, Hylas J. C. Smith, Neath D. Ireland, William E. Woolsey, Harold A. Mack; Engineering councilmen, Tcdrum Cedum, W. Wanner, Clare A. Poland, Charles W. Hunebuch; Law councilmen, Paul Gweever, Clement A. Reed; Medic councilman, Homer Blincoe; Pharmic councilman, Walter W. Wood; Graduate Councilman, Walter W. Wood; members of the Athletic Board are: Athletic, Walter Wood, Fred Rodkey, Bonnie Reber; non-athletic, John Gliessen and Rex Miller, Joe Gaiksill is cheerleader.
Initiation Was Supplemented by Talks From Professors
Sigma Xi, honorary scientific fraternity, initiated nine men last night at the home of Prof. W. H, Tenhofen, 1665 Mississippi street, E. Lydor Jr., Oklahoma City, doing research in absent, doing research work in the Oklahoma oil fields at Bartlesville.
Prof. William A. Whitaker gave a short initiation talk on "Plotation," which he wrote to Anatole Tighe and Its Relation to Mental Activity After Severe Physical Exercise" and Prof. R. L. Grider told of his experience with the brain, for rare and precious ores.
TWO HUNDRED ATTENDED
MU PHI EPSILON MUSICAL
The Mu Phi Epsilon sorority gave their annual musicale Thursday night at the Unitarian church. Fifteen members of the twenty-three in the university's music lab internship program. Solo and ensemble numbers featured the entertainment. Two hundred people were present including members of fraternities and sororities, to whom special invitations were extended by the organization.
Monthly musicales are held at the chapter-house, 1347 New Hampshire street, by memorial society, to honor their progress in the work of their respective department.
Several freshmen are reported to have been much interested in the basketball tournament, not because of the fact that some of their boy team was in the tournament because "she" happened to be a member of one of the girls' teams.
Bonnie Morris, of Lecompton, attended the Zoellner concert Thursday night. Miss Morris was the guest of college, Harriet Williams, 19 College.
Miss Esther Clark, author of the "Call of Kannas," who is now enrolled in the University, was called to preside. The reason for her death of the illness of her father.
Plain Tales from the Hill
Mrs. L. A. Rockwell, who has been in Lawrence visiting her daughter, Luceilie Rockwell, '19 College and his son, Ray Rockwell, '18 Engineering returned today to her home in Chicago.
Romulus B. Church, a sophomore in the College from Lawrence, has been pledged to the Alpha . au Omega fraternity.
Bishop John Ward of the Leavenworth diocese will confirm a large class at the Catholic church Sunday morning.
Lafe Bresette, one of the medics who went to Rosedale the first of the semester, was on the Hill the first of this week to adjust a slight difficulty in his reading. He was refused an A. B. degree on the grounds that he did not have the year's work required in the College. He contends that this requirement made him then he first entered the University and is therefore entitled to a degree.
Mu Phi Epsilon, musical sorority, has issued invitations for its spring musical which will be given at the church the evening of March 23.
Edward E. Bennett, senior College, who was operated on the last of January in an effort to straighten his neck, was admitted to the room of his room at the University Hospital. The heavy cast has been removed and a light shorter one put on so that he can get about on crutches. The operation will prove successful.
The members of the German Verein are now working on a three act comedy. Der Vetter, which they expect to have ready for production in the near future. George Berg has the leading role.
John M. Shea, superintendent of buildings and grounds, takes pride in the fact that he does not wear a collar-button in the back of his collar.
Professor and Mrs. Arthur C. Terril are "at home" the second Thursday evening each month to the mining students, at their residence 1136 Tennessee street. The evenings are spent very informally, often clippings and articles about mining or ore dressing are enjoyed and discussion encouraged.
Prof. E. P. Sisson of Hamilton, N.Y., is visiting his son, Prof. L. E. Sisson, of the department of English. He has taught mathematics in the Coigate University at Hamilton for many years.
Three pennies come rolling in to Prof. J. E. Todd, of the department of geology, about every day. He furnished his geology classes about a quarter of the year with three cents apiece, and some of the students are slow in paying.
Professor Patterson aroused his class in medieval history the other morning by telling them the strict rules that all universities were forced to follow. Two of the examples he sighted were at the University of Paris, where students were forbidden by law to draw knives on professors or offer them bribes.
Edward H. Schoenfeld, a sophomore engineer from independence, has published a book on
Walter G. Cadmus, 17 Engineers, received a short visit from his father in 1928.
Prof, W. A. McKeever, head of the department of child welfare returned Wednesday from a trip to Burlington and Pittsburg. He delivered four lectures in each place in the interest of child welfare work.
Dean F. J. Kelly of the School of Education addressed the members of the Pi Gamma Sigma sorority Tuesday at a reception in which she said it is a Real Profession for Women."
The robin is a silly bird,
He comes in early spring
Before the snow is scarecely gone,
A very dangerous thing.
The Robin
suit boy with with his slat.
and sums
Hershel Washington, '20 College, says that he believes the police force in Lawrence has him marked, for everytime that he goes down to the old bridge to watch the work of the men on the new one under construction some officer of the law is sure to come up and request him to move on.
Along with spring the swallow comes
To catch the early worm:
To catch the late worm his state
While writing a feature story, one if the Kansan reporters called the lome phone for the manager of the sell system.
Signs of Spring
Begins to twist and squirm.
The Laws were on the job Friday morning, and those who noticed the sidewalk across the street from Green Park to Yale University's Gymnasium across the street."
MICE AID SCIENTISTS WILL TEST STUDENTS
Zoologists Also Use Pigs and Rabbits in Heredity Tests
WORK OUT MENDEL'S LAWS
Scientists Verify Conclusions of Famous Biologist
Consider the little mouse. Ancientists have worshipped it. Chinamen have feasted upon it and now our learned creature uses it to create a source of information.
A series of experiments in heredity are being undertaken by Prof. W. R. B. Robertson since the completion of the new animal house. The parents have determined the harm done to the offspring by treating the parents with alcohol. Some of the mice are kept in a constant state of intoxication while others are allowed only an unusual spree. The mother has also been said to that, "The sins of the father shall be visited unto the children, even to the third and fourth generations."
The animals most commonly used in experimental heredity are guinea pigs, rats, rabbits, poultry, pigeons and frequently the fruit fly. The objects Professor Robertson and his team have developed are two-fold. First, a research to discover more about the laws of heredity and, secondly, to provide students with illustrations and demonstrations of these laws that have already been worked out.
The reasons for using these animals are that they increase so rapidly, and the other reason is that rates at which gains pigs, in particular, multiply. They produce from six to ten young every twenty-one days and from five to six generations a year.
STUDYING CANCER
The fact that man is an animal and subject to the same biological laws as are these lower animals, makes any information in regard to heredity discovered in them, apply, more or less to man. Especially is this true of an important line of investigation being carried on at the present time with mice, to test the susceptibility of the results are complicated but follow the tendency of those laws controlling size and variation.
In testing the degeneracy and deformities of alcoholized animals it has been found that the offsprings may be modified and injured in their development by treating the father or mother daily with alcohol. Guinea pigs were found to produce normal offspring. In some cases alcoholic males were mated with normal females and vice versa. The result each time was defective young. Some of the animals were treated with alcohol for two months, and they apparently had effects in their own bodily vigor or health. The bad effects were shown in the offspring—especially in the central nervous system and the sense organs. Stockard's own conclusions are that such deformatives are transmitted to the fourth generation and that parents or grand parent but only the great grand father had been subjected to alcohol.
Mendel's law however is not always so simple as this. There are many characters that are used to character to character in the animals. The same law is thought to hold true in the inheritance of size of man and animals, but it doesn't include events of our own negro-white crosses.
Of all the laws of heredity which have been worked out by these animals, that of Mendel's is the most important. An example will serve to explain it. If pure breed black quinea pigs are crossed with white quinea pigs the offspring will all be black, the black color dominating the white. If pure breed white quinea pigs the offspring in the third generation will be in the proportion of three black individuals to one white. By further breeding, the white when bred to white are found to breed true to white, but of the blacks only one-third breed true to black, like the original grandfather, and the other ones together, will give the same ratio as in the third generation. In human heredity the same laws hold true.
ILLUSTRATES MENDEL'S LAWS
For those who wish to go into the subject of heredity and at the same time find interesting reading the field of geneticetics, they will well Born," Guyer; "Genetics," H. E. Walter; "The Right of the Child to be Well Born," by G. E. Dawson; "Naturalist," Stockard. These books may be found in the Snow Hall library.
The Moody Club entertained with a short dance Thursday evening in honor of the visiting basketball players. Music was furnished by Alden Torrey, Oscar Majors, Miss Elda Woelk, and Miss Alice Bumman.
Mrs. S. B. Farrell, of Osborne, is living her son Edwin Hullinger, 1792.
Class in City School Administration to Examine Sixth Grade Pupils
A CO-OPERATIVE SURVEY
Meeting Tomorrow at Junction City to Complete Plans
The class in City School Supervision has completed arrangements with Superintendent F. P. Smith of the Lawrence schools for, giving a series of standard tests to all sixth-grade children for the purpose of determining the relative standing of pupils in the different schools as well as determining the relative position of Lawrence schools with other schools in Kansas.
The class is conducted by Dean F J. Kelly of the School of Education The tests will be made by the stu- tes in charge of supervised by Superintendent Smith.
HUNT POCKET LOAFERS
Zoology Department Will Secure Specimens From Jefferson County
"Pocket Loafers" are the object of a trip into Jefferson county which Prof. Herman Douthitt and Jimmy Rogers are making Friday and Saturday, "Pocket Loafers" are a kind of roast beef at a first glance but have feet with strong claws peculiarly adapted to digging and large pouches at either side of the mouth for storing food. The gopher is destructive to fields chiefly in that they burrow into tunnels and thus hinder cultivation.
The object of this trip is to try to
find a small hole with a good
sunlight or tape worms.
The Douglas County Pocket Lollers seem to be lacking in the matter of tape worms, which according to the guide made by Mr. Douthitt is quite strange.
While Mr. Douthitt wants the gophers for the purpose of studying the tape worm which he hopes to find in Jefferson county animals, Jimmie Rogers wants them in order to study the animals their herd is using as pests "they tunnel great distances," said Mr. Rogers, and feed on roots."
These are not the only use to which the specimens they hope to catch will be put. Prof. B. M. Allen, of the department of Zoology, wants specimens from the lot to use in his work in embryology.
Twenty-five or thirty traps will be taken on the trip. The men hope to get at least fifty others. They may want to catch them off the ground or at time to catch these animals is just before dark and at daybreak, and it will be more convenient, they think, to out of their blankets and look into the house to have to get up at such an hour.
TRUTH, MERIT OF BIBLE
Prof, R. A. Schwegler Says Inspiration is Not Main Quality
“Revelation of truth, not inspiration, is the quality of the Bible to which is due its survival through the centuries,” said Prof. R. A. Schwegler in his address before the joint session of Congress Y. W. C. A. in Myers Hall last night.
"The Bible stands before all men of the western hemisphere and commands their respect despite the challenge of philosopher, scientist, or the dogma not only of Christianity but all of religion. There are different types of religious inspiration. There are psychic states supposed to be inspired by divine energy or a municite goes into a 'trance.' There is a chemical conception of inspiration practiced by certain tribes of Indians who take drugs to induce the inspired state. The third are those who can sense the matter of matter to the clear basic truth.
"The Bible is not a text book of science. It is the result of inspiration—the rare ability in man to reach out and get in touch with the Infinite Spirit of the universe which is every where about him."
Last night's lecture was the third of a series of four talks given by Professor Schwegler on every Thursday night in March. Hugo Wedel, secretary of the department, said that the meeting last night was better attended than any previous
Prof. A. C. Hodge dismissed his class in accounting Friday afternoon to attend the address of Dean L. C. Marshall of the University of Chicago, who is at the head of the School of Computer Science at Michigan State to spoke before the meeting of the Conference of Kansas High Schools and Academies at 2:00 p. m.
Plain Tales from the Hill
The Reporter's Lament
Oh, I must scour the Hill today and find a tale that's plain. I know not what to write about, the spring, perhaps, or rain. Or shall I interview a prof, a stude, or janitor, or shall I once again make known what the weather flags stand for? Or shall I write about the war, about the K. N. Gs., about baseball, about the frats, or the sororities? Or shall I who has coarsen and who has gone away, or war babies, or passing rows, or of the senior play. I'll try to write up something new and scorn all that is stale, so wake up friends, and help me out. Suggest a plain, plain tale.
The commencement address of Oread high school will be delivered by B. H. Wilson, superintendent of the Topeka schools, on the evening of May 31, 2014, at the church. Besides the address, several musical numbers will be given, and the diplomas presented to the members of the graduating class by the Mr. F. J. Lyons and School of Education. There will be also graduates n the class.
"Those Soph Hop plans sound mighty good to me, and I heartily wish that I could be back in the University when the event takes place," writes Warren Reeling of the College. Reeling is with the General Electric Company at Atlanta, Georgia. He visited in Lawrence at commencement last year.
Emily Berger, '14 College, who did graduate work on the Hill last year, returned to Lawrence Tuesday, and is now a director in the department of chemistry.
Lawrence Morris, LL. B., 14, spent the week-end in Lawrence at the Phi Psi house. It has been definitely reported that Morris is in the race for nomination to the office of county attorney in Geary county, where he now has his own "Attorney-at-Law" sign out over his office.
Harry Alphin, who graduated from the School of Law in '14, is now located in Knox City, Mo. He is a practice attorney and he interests in the bank at that place.
Kenneth Clark who formerly lived in Lawrence has written to his friends that he expects to enter the University next fall. At present he is attending the high school in Mount Sterling, Illinois.
H. Merle Smith, '18 College, while on his trip to Oklahoma awoke to find himself appointed to occupy the shoes of Prof. R. A. Schwegler, who was on a journey to Arkansas City where he met Mr. Smith, and he sentiment to seek defective school children from those who are normal. The honor thus thrust upon Mr. Smith was unsought by him. A porter had accidentally exchanged the shoes of the two geography students found himself called upon to occupy a pair of shoes just five sizes too small for him. The mistake was corrected by the porter and it was not until Mr. Smith noticed Professor Schwegler's dressing room, that he realized the high honor which had been paid him by the porter.
While the pupils of Dr. Alice Goetz were doing a feature group dance Saturday night for the benefit of the high school visitors in Robinson Gymnasium, the students at a time when everyone in the house could hear it drop. Before the dance was completed at least fifty pennies had been tossed to the basketball floor. The dancers were too hurried to notice the contribution and the basketball teams which appeared a few moments later reaped the harvest.
Miss Helen Watts, of Corning, Ia., has been visiting Helen Weed since March 10. The girls were old schoolmates at Corning high school. Miss Watts is now attending Brownell Hall a boarding school in Omaha.
Several young women of the University will sacrifice the traditional Easter bonnet for new sweaters. Those who received A's, the honor emblem of the Women's Athletic Association, must have new sweaters on which to put the crimson and blue letters.
Charles B. Watkins, '18 College,
from Blue Ripads, accepted a position
n principal of grade school in Tulsa,
last week. He began work
Monday.
Prof. W. A. Griffith's small son, when visiting the art exhibit on the third floor of the Administration Building last week, came running to his father with the news that Charley Chaplin was in looking at the pictures. Professor Griffith investigated and found Percy V. Shostac.
Nell Hitchens, '18 College, left for her home in Burlington Thursday evening. She received word that morning, that her father, Major A.J. J. Moore, been called to Mexico to engage in the war, and would leave Sunday.
WILL STAGE TOURNEY
Athletic Women Will Have Field Meet With Fifteen Different Events
TO BE INTERCLASS AFFAIR
Trophy Cups Will Be Awarded to Winners
"All women who are interested in an athletic tourney or a swimming meet should turn out at once for practice," said Miss Hazel Praat, women's swim coach. "This will feature which will feature in the spring sports will be interclass. The athletic tourney will take the form of a field meet with about fifteen different events and a swimming class with about ten events. The chance for a woman not only to win points toward an A, but to show her class spirit as well. Upperclass women, sophomores and freshmen will all be represented when the meets come to a climax next May.
"The work begins at once. If the schedule as outlined on the bulletin board in my office, conflicts in any way arise, I will make special arrangements. However practice for most of the events is scheduled for any hour in the day. It is not necessary to sign up for any event; a person who gets a line on what she can do.
Dash: 50, 75, 100 yards
Running high jump
Standing high jump
Standing broad jump
Baseball throw
Discus throw
Antibasketball throw
Hurl throw
Low hurdles 40 and 60
"A beginning class in basketball will also start next week and those who wish to learn the game in order to gain more experience chance. This also gives more women chance to make the different inter-team teams next year. The hours for his class will be Tuesday at 2:30, Thursday at 4:30, and Friday at 1:30."
Schedule for the athletic tourney:
Low hurdles 40 and 60 yds.
As a sort of limbering-up initiation to this tourney, baseball will be practiced at 2:30 on Tuedays and Thursdays.
The hours for swimming will remain the same, Mondays and Thursdays from 10:30 to 5 o'clock. Special diving and strokes from 3:30 to 4:30.
Side stroke, 50 ft.
Breast stroke, 50 feet. Voluntary stroke, 50 ft.
Schedule for the swimming meet:
Diving from spring board:
| High diving from a firm take off: |
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| Front dive                                   |
| Swan dive, running                          |
| Side dive                                  |
| (Voluntary Dives)                           |
| Standing, sitting, standing                  |
| Back dive                                    |
| Neck dive                                    |
| Back flip                                    |
| Feet first                                   |
| Front dive with one-fourth twist            |
| Standing, sitting, standing with one-fourth twist. |
| High diving from a firm take off:        |
| Front dive                                   |
| Swan dive                                    |
| Back flip                                    |
| Front iack-knife                            |
J. A. FARRELL IN CONCERT
Popular Singer of F. A. Faculty at Fraser Next Week
Prof. Joseph Farrell will give a concert Wednesday, March 28, 8:15, in Fraser Hall. This is the fourth of the series of professional concerts to be given by the faculty of the School of Fine Arts.
Professor Farrrell, accompanied by Mrs. Farrell will sing, among other numbers, two compositions of Prof. Charles Skilton. Miss Anna Sweeney met with several piano numbers, one composed by Prof. Carl A. Preyer.
The public is invited.
MORNING PRAYERS
Week March 27-31
Lender, Rev. E. E. Staffer.
"The Human and Divine Touch."
Daily subjects
1. Praver.
Monday: "The Nature of Prayer."
Tuesday: "Postulates of Prayer."
9. Results
Wednesday: "The Touch with God."
Thursday: "The Touch from
God."
3. Illustrations—Friday