UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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VOLUME XII.
NUMBER 107
"RAGS" ARE NOT SO BAD
Enjoyment of Cheap Music Not Intellectual Deprivity
SCHUBERT LIKED COOPER
"If you enjoy 'Bill Bailey,' and 'Beatrice Fairax,' it does not necessarily mean that you lack intellectuality or that you lack praved cause. C.S. Skilton, said Pro Organ this morning.
Great Composer Had Love For
Tales of Adventure
tain class 9. There is, however, a certain small class of art of art who care only for the best and most classical. The latter class forms the nucleus of audiences at the recitals and concerts of good music. The mass of people appreciate thoroughly and purposefully the most classical form of that art which appeals to them individually, and is unappreciative of the art in other lines, they rest themselves with lighter forms. Shubert is an example of this.
"People must have some light form of recreation to balance their lives. The favorite author of Shubert was James Fennimore Cooper, who can hardly be called a writer of classics. Yet it is certain that Shubert appreciated the work of writers and equaled his effort to music the poems Shakespeare and other great writers. Popular music, like general literature, is the only form of these arts which appeals to a certain class of people.
is an exalted form, it is true of music is true in other arts as regards the popular taste. The frother forms serve a recreation to the one who is cerned with only its classical forms of on-eyedicular art. I know a practitioner and successful lawyer whose favorite reading is the “Fire-side Companion.”
"Professor MacDougal of Wellesley College who visited music classes at K. U. recently, expressed surprise at the earnestness and zeal displayed by the students. The interest was far greater than the eastern side. That the students who are representative of this locality are appreciative is shown by the incapacity of Fraser Hall to seat the audience which appear at most on the audiences and the Lyman Abbott who was here last year are proof of a general appreciation of the best.
"The advance of vocational music has not only opened a wider field for a musician; but also enables him to earn a better living, which is one of the factors instrumental music engages the people to a rational view of those concerns on a musical career. Fifty-five years ago the common conception of a musician was a long-haired foreigner of questionable morals. This was especially the New England, where he raised. The most important career was that of a clergyman. I myself was condemned by friends for choosing to study music."
music.
While I think everyone should have a knowledge of music just as of other arts, only those who feel compelled to should devote themselves to it."
PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS
PREPARE TO GET JOBS
A meeting of the students in the School of Education was held Friday afternoon in Fraser Hall for the purpose, of explaining arrangements for meetings between the prospective teachers and the schoolmen who will be here for the teachers' convention. March 17 and 18. Plans for the rapid presentation of credential's were discussed.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 6, 1916.
"Many students fail to make a good impression when talking to superintendents and school boards because they become frustrated with rassed feedback. "Of course, students who are fully capable fail to show up well when talking to prospective employers. We hope to give the students a very positive forest albeit along with direct the concerns and expect to get better results by this method."
Approximately 175 students have signified their intention of teaching school next year, and they are applauded by the Board for the Recommendation of Teachers.
A contributor to the "New Republic," is the latest honor of Raymond Clapper, a special in the College, of Kansas City. Clapper will be celebrating February 19th issue data with the absolute freedom of the press from all evil influences.
Entertains Trego Co. Club.
Entertain
Jeanne Kirkendall, '17. College entertained the Trego county club at 1144 Louisiana Street, Monday night,
The Reverend Father Ziegenfuss, of Gorilla was the guest of honor and made a short talk to the club. There are about sixteen Trego county students present, a few of whom Father Ziegenfuss tutored before they came to the University.
H. S. PARTIES DO NOT LAST
UNTIL TWO, SWIS PRINCIPAL
F. H. Olney, principal of the Lawrence high school, has just written desiring to correct a facetious item that appeared in a recent issue of the University Daily Kansas to the effect that while he was at twelve o'clock high school union parties could continue until two.
Mr. Olney says: "All high school parties are given under the supervision of the teachers and close by 11:30. The Union Club party, to which I suppose the item referred, was not in any sense a high school affair. That high school students may be members of the students attended some high school students attended that is aside from the question. We cannot assume responsibility for every party to which parents permit their children to go. We accept the responsibility for strictly high school social affairs of all forms, and see that they are carefully looked after."
ANOTHER CONFERENCE
Mechanicals Will Hear Lectures and Have Banquet March Ninth
The conference day of the mechanical engineers has been definitely fixed for March 9. That day will be given over to the discussion of the mechanical problems by our team, authorities and faculty members and students.
The regular mechanical engineering classes will be dismissed at 10:30 for the rest of the day. The annual banquet will be held in the evening at Eagles' Hall. The list of toasts for the evening will be given, pleted as yet, by E. E Stillwell, press editor of Student Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which is behind the conference day plans, promises a live time for all those mechanicals who attend. The little green tags are selling fast today at $1.35, and from瑕疵 prerequisites every mechanic must attend from the Dean of the Engineering School to the newest freshman, will be in attendance.
The following program was announced on the financials' bulletin board.
O. B. Zimmerman, with the International Harvester Co. of Chicago, will talk on the "Carburition of Medium and Low Grade Fuels for Internal Combustion" at the Mr. department of the International Harvester Company in Europe before the war broke out and he is now holding the position of advisory engineer at the home offices of the company in Chicago.
F. P. Fisher, the Assistant Manager of the WichitaPipe Line Company, will address the students on problems in Natural Gas Foaminger.
C. J. Price, consulting mining engineer of Topeca, will speak on "Mechanical Engineering in Connection Operation and Operation of Mining Properties."
John D. Garver, assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering, will lecture on the physical and chemical gas, and Natural Gas Rich in Methane." This lecture will be the summary of a series of original investigations carried on in the laboratories of the Department of Gas, this comparatively new form of gas.
B. O. Bower, a junior mechanical will operate on the "Manifold of Automobile Tyres."
The morning sessions of the conference will begin in Marvin Hall promptly at 10:30 a.m., lasting until 12:30. The afternoon session begins on the place beginning at 2:30, and lasting until between five and six o'clock.
A dime's worth of chocolates will carry a student safely through the pangs of an afternoon spent at Spooner Library, according to several students. Two chocolates at the end of each chapter is the proportion suggested and it is surely one only on the derist assignment of required reading," and often wander over into the "optional" without resenting the transgression.
John Traver has bought a can of tobacco. This may mean nothing to the general public, but it means a great
A teacher of journalism and coach of an ever victorious basketball team is the chief occupation of Earl Crabbe, who specialized in journalism last year at K. U. His work is at the Auburn high school, Placer County, California. Crabbe did his undergraduate work at the University of California. He his track "C" several years in the two mile and assisted Coach Hamilton here last year in working the cross country team into shape.
On the first day that the blue weather flag was raised on Frase one student was heard to exclaim "Why I wonder who has died!"
Nearly 400 People Make Merry at Big Junior Formal Party
PROM DRAWS BIG CROWD
Although danced had to stop exactly at 2 o'clock, even if the program did lack three numbers of being completed, the Junior Prom, held last Friday night in Robinson gymnasium, was socially and financially a success and all of the 400 people who attended went home satisfied. "We were very sorry to have to out program short," Manager Pulse Friend said, this morning, "but we cannot blame Mrs. Brady. She was only enforcing University rule. When I found that we could not possibly get through the dances by 2 and asked that we be allowed to run a few minutes over time. However she said that the lights would be out at that time so we had better stop the party. We did, and that's all there is to it."
The managers have not yet checked up all their expense accounts but both Friend and Foster say that they are confident that there is going to be at least a small balance on the profit side of the ledger. Less elaborate programs and a simple menu made possible the financial success of big parties such as the prom went into trouble with the managers, Alex Creighton and Bryan Davis had to give a benefit tax to pay off the debts incurred.
A FINANCIAL SUCCESS
BLACK Dame Fashion is nothing if not cumulative. Four hundred University people were introduced into the mysteries of her latest whim when the Junior Prom proved to be a "bash and white ball." Ceiling and walls of the Gym dancing floor were converted into a veritable checker-board for affair, and the impression made by the vivid contrast was striking. Even the orchestra stand was a striking display of black and white stripes, and dancers who whirled around it actually became dizzy from the effect of the color scheme.
BLACK AND WHITE DECORATIONS
Dancing began about nine o'clock following an unusually impressive grand march. Ray Hall's eight piece orchestra went up to the music was of that peppery, snappy sort that simply makes the audience dance.
A CABARET FLIRTATION
Refreshments were served on the first floor of the Gym during the dance program. Dresters were divided into three groups for the luncheon. Cabaret singers from the Mayfair in Kansas City furnished entertainment. Complications from a flirtation between one of the singers and a prominent K. U. society man led to much merriment.
Managers Friend and Foster deserve much credit for the success of the party. Few K. U. formals have ever been so successful, really, they fight over, really hit the keynote of the events success, however, when he remarked to one of his players: "Gee! I never saw such a bunch of pretty girls in my life."
INTERCARBAN MAT CAREER
TRACK FANS TO K. C. MEET
INTERURBAN MAY CARRY
The Kansas City Lawrence interurban will probably be operating between Lawrence and Kansas City by March 17. Students attending the track meet on the same date will save sixty-five cents car fare on the round trip by patronizing the electric line if it is operating.
John M. Henry, editor of last year's Kansas, who has been visiting around the Hill the past two weeks, left yesterday for Beatrice, Neb., where he will establish a new work on prohibitionists. Henry, until two months ago, was editor and owner of the Botna Valley News, Macedonia, Iowa.
The report that the company had gone into the hands of the receiver came as a surprise to the interurban officials. The contractors who sued for receivership, according to Mr. Heim, were to be paid in full as soon as their responsibilities to the company were canceled.
Elmo F. Miltner, senior engineer of Wichita, returned Friday from a five days' trip through the western part of the state, where he has been inspecting the methods of sewage disposal in several towns. Among those visited were Hays, Oakley, Ellis, and Shannon Springs, all of which are requested to have a date method. Milten actually finished his University work last semester, but he still has a few days' work before he can leave for good.
Ernest Templin, a high school senior from Minneapolis, arrived in Lawrence Thursday evening to visit his brother, Art Templin, '16 Engineering, and to attend the Engineers' annual banquet. Mr. Templin is planning to enroll at the University next fall.
The bad weather has delayed the work of ballasting, but with spring here the work is expected to come to a conclusion within the next week.
TEACHERS COMING HERE
From All Parts of State Educa
tors Will Gather on Mount
Teachers in high schools of all parts of the state will come to the University of Kansas on Friday and Saturday, March 17 and 18, to attend the thirteenth annual conference of high schools and academies.
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Several features have been planned for the conference including the annual business meeting of the high school debating league and the annual high school sports tournament for girls' state championships. Special demonstrations will be given to visiting teachers by the domestic science department at the University. Both general and special subjects are different subjects will be held.
subjects wit the program are these included: the program Thomas W. Butcher, president Emporia Normal; W. D. Ross, superintendent of public instruction; C. C. Brown, state high school inspector; Dean L. C. Marshall, University of Chicago; Lotus D. Coffman, department of law; University of Minnesota (seis B. Davis, president vacation guidance association, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Porter Graves, Manual Training School Kansas City, Mo.
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Subject to be discussed include the legal problems which high school administrators and teachers have to face. In the list of topics are: high school supervision; high school economics; community singing; vocational guidance; junior high schools; social problems of the high schools; student self-help in high schools; so-called as a high school study; current literature in English work; testing of the intelligence of high school students.
FRESHMEN WON'T WAIT
19-ers Will Start Memorial Collections
Without Upperclass
Regardless of whether the sophomore and the junior classes are ready to start the work of collecting their financial fund dues tomorrow, the members of the freshman memorial fund committee promises to dot the campus library with the little green memorial tags then and Wednesday.
The freshmen were ready last week for the launching of their memorial fund campaign, but at the request of upper class members postponed the dates of collection until tomorrow and Wednesday.
Wheeling is considerably question now as to whether the members of the memorial fund committees of the three upper classes are ready to travel to collections tomorrows in each collection, to visit officers are strongly in favor of the work being started then. According to Tom Pringle, president of the freshmen, a chairman of the freshman memorial committee, the freshman collections will go ahead just the same.
The persons who will have the trojan man tags for sale tomorrow are:
treasman Louis Hunt, Margaret Fairchild, Lucile Hovey, Rose Hawthen, Helen Chapman, Kelen Naismith, Marjorie Castle, Louise Nixon, Margaret Young, Elizabeth Carney, Margaret Fitch, and Ruth Frisch. Connell, Courtney, Hugh Foulke Critter, Harry Sacher, Trom Pringle, Herbert Jordan, Kenneth Bell, Hershal Washington, William Allen, Harold Sutton, Robert Martin, Warren Moody, Eugene Martin, Clifford Pray and Ray Johnson, Alain Fraa
School of Engineering; Center, R. J. Martin, Chelsea Davis, Forster, R. J. Martin, Betscher, Kelsey Matthews, Merle Hunt, Alfred Renit and Edward Goodwin.
Among the many things which will be offered for the teachers while they are here for their annual convention March 17 and 18, is a textile display by the department of home economies. The plan has not been fully worked out, but several demonstrations will be given by students showing testing for different materials. Charts will be made which illustrate the effects of different acids on textiles, in order to find out the material from which they are made.
Show Textiles to Pedagogues
Carl Kelley, '15 Law, who has been in Chicago since graduation, has returned to his home in Lawrence to spend the summer. "In spite of the fact that Kansas is a prohibition state," Carl says, "I believe it is easier to be admitted to the bar in Kansas than in Chicago."
Howard Blaine, who entered the University last week, was captain of the Ottawa University football team for two years.
The favorite painting at the painting exhibit seems to be the "Striped Bass," by William M. Chase. The same picture was shown here less.
Gertrude Hurley, junior College will spend a few days this week, with her parents, in Kansas City.
STUDENTS STUDY EFFECTS OF CANKER WORM ON ELMS
The class in entomology is getting its first practical lessons in the inspection of the trees of Lawrence in finding out how badly they are affected by the canker worm moth. The city is apportioned to students by wards, and a systematic inspection is being made.
The canker worm attacks the elm trees only, and practically all of these trees have been wrapped with bands covered with some tanglefoot material which catches the air on the leaves. Her nest in the leaves on the ground as the warm weather approaches, and begins to climb up the trunks of the elms.
The entomology students are counting the moths which have been caught in the traps laid for them and thus contribute to the district's number of the city are determined.
K. U. SENTIMENT WRONG?
Governor Capper Doesn't Think Polity Club's Inquiry Is General Belief
Governor Arthur Capper believes that the results of the Polity Club inquiry among students of the University which favored preparedness, are in direct conflict with the sentiment of the state. The team is within the past three months, to express a desire for a big army and navy, he points out.
of the Polity Club, Governor Capper
a letter to Ralph Ellis, secretary
of the Polity Club.
"I thank you for sending me the result of the vote taken by the Polity club. The figures are interesting. I must say, however, that I do not believe the vote of 182 to 104 in favor of the administration's program, creating a situation correctly matches the sentiment of the state of Kansas. A great many Kansas organizations, educational, agricultural, industrial and religious, have expressed an opinion on this matter in the last three months and your Polity club is only one of them. I have heard of the big army and navy program. Everyone, of course, is in favor of adequate national defense and reasonable preparedness, but I find decided opposition throughout the state of Kansas, especially among the masses of people, to the plains of Texas, where military purposes for naval and military purposes and put this country on a basis of militarism.
there is a wide-spread feeling that the present appropriations of more than $300,000,000 annually for this purpose are not far from being sufficient to take care of our economic and efficiently expended. There is no doubt but a large part of these appropriations have been wasted in past years."
At 8:30 a. m. a few days ago all members of professor Humbel's class in Bills and Notes were in their seats (this alone is almost without precedence) but there was no "prof." Then the students reflected; then they admitted that something awful had happened. Professor Humbel had told the class at the previous meeting that he would be out of town on this particular day and that there would be no class.
C. A. Randolph, senior president, was not the only dayhawker to enjoy having his tonsils removed last week. Prof. H. A. Lorenz, men's physical training instructor, accompanied Randolph to the Bell Memorial Hospital in Rosedeal for a similar operation. Although Randolph returned to Lawrence the early part of the week, Lorenz was unable to be at his office in Robinson gymnasium until Thursday.
Just as the warm, soft days were beginning to germinate the dormant spark of poetry in the hearts of a number of aspiring University bards, the freakish Kansas weather has suddenly dashed a blanket of snow on their rising emotions and set-the-mat temporary, and the lyrical lines will be bubbling forth in profusion—then, many will hope for another snowstorm.
Dorothy Miller, '17 College, left last Thursday morning for her home in Topeka, where she will visit her parents before returning to Lawrence.
Playing Oriental music, such as the national hymn of Java, is one of the interesting experiments performed by Prof. R. M. Oden in the study of audition in the class in general psychology.
Norman Greer: Where are you bound?
Albert Haken: Snowbound,
Normal State.
Whittier than
nothing I ever heard.
Bess Murphy attended a house party in Emporia, Friday to Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gerhen.
Blanche Mullen spent the week-end with her parents in Hutchinson.
AND NOW FOR THE HOP
Sophomores Announce Plans for "Most Elaborate Party of the Year"
APRIL 28 JS THE DATE
Musical Comedy, With a Big Chorus, Feature Attraction
A musical comedy given by a large cast and a chorus of twenty is to be one of the unusual features of this work, but it remains a novel attractions are also planned.
Tumbling hot on the very heels of the Junior Prom comes the announcement, made this morning of plans for the annual Soph. Hop, an informal party given by the sophomores in honor of the new year, for the party this year; and Robinson Gymnasium, as usual, the place in which it will be given. The party will be absolutely informal, and cabs, flowers, and dress suits will all be under the ban. Any student in attendance will be given by a large
"The dance itself will of course be the big attraction," said Harry Montgomery, chairman of the program committee, this morning. "Haley's six piece orchestra, of Kansas City, will furnish the music—and me, it will provide it." Were to have a lot of dances and a whirlwind serpentine carnival at the finish. You know what that means—J-O-Y—in capital letters.
Aside from the dance, the Soph Farce, in the form of a musical comedy, will be a big feature. "We have a one act musical comedy called 'Oh! Oh! Oh!'," said Dick Edwards, chairman of the farce committee, when questioned regarding it; "and I wish to state emphatically that it is a show from two shows now playing at the Forty-fourth Street Theater and the Winter Garden in New York, and the costumes will look as though they just stepped out of 'vogue.' Instead of giving the show on a stage, we're going to put it on right on the gym floor, without the assistance of either scenery or properties. This method of staging is being used in New York at Maxim's Bustaround by the Midnight Frolic. A cast of five, orchestra of six, and a chorus of twenty will present our show. Tryouts will be announced in the near future, and rehearsals will begin the last of the month."
New features are also announced for the "eats". Instead of the usual quartet tables, one immense banquet table will be built in the form of a hollow square. In the center of this square is an impressive three course luncheon, the guests will dance. Professional performers will entertain while the guests are eating. "We hope to make this stunt one of the biggest drawing cards on the floor," Francis Fisher, chairman of the refreshment committee, said this morning.
"Decorations will be the best we can make 'em," is the statement of Raymond Rockwell, chairman of the decoration committee. "The University colors will be used in carrying out the scheme, and the press agent's hand will be used. The land' will become an actuality. Not only will the dancing floor be decorated, but we also expect to work on the banquet room a great deal."
Many other new features are planned by the management, and will be announced as quickly as they are definitely arranged for. With the Hop team's weekly weeks away, the necessity for immediate preparation becomes apparent.
"We haven't made our plans yet for the ticket sale," said John Dyer, chairman of the finance committee, this morning. "Admission will be, as we should, on Friday, but when we shall begin selling tickets, I can't say. All seniors who paid their sophomore dues are admitted free, just as all the sophomores who have completed this year will be mittened free to the Hop given their senior year."
Clare Youse is chairman of the invitation committee.
"The Randall basketball team will be here for the high school tournament," said Oscar Scanland, a freshman in the College From Randall, yesterday. "Randall has a good team and I believe that they will win."
The Weather
Monday: Fair tonight and Tuesday,
colder tonight.
MORNING PRAYERS
Week of March 7-10
Leader, Prof. A. MacMurray
Subjects:
Monday, "The Bible as Good Reading."
Tuesday, "The Young Man Absalom."
Wednesday, "The Work Habit."
Thursday, "The Two Selves"
Friday, "The Sons of Martha."