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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
WOULD CHANGE HELP?
NUMBER 98.
Prof. U. G. Mitchell Says Present Plan is Best—Desires Student Opinion
OLD PLAN WAS FAILURE
"I am personally not in favor of changing the chapel hour from what it is now," said Prof. U. G. Mitchell, chairman of the chapel committee when asked his opinion concerning changing the chapel hour back to ten o'clock and beginning classes at the school; with ten o'clock chapel for ten years not to want to try it again. At first ten o'clock chapel was a success, then attendance began to fall off until at last we had no one.
Dean Templem Has Hopes for Success of Present Hour
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 21, 1916
"After that failed, as a last resource, we started the eight o'clock chapel hour. To me it seems the only plausible hour," continued Mr. Warner. "Some faculty favor putting chapel at 4:30, but I do not think we would have a larger attendance at that hour than we have at 8:00. Of course it requires a little energy and backbone to get up to chapel at 8:00. Sometimes excuse for not attending at any hour we could surprise.
"Chapel was then held only two days a week, Tuesday and Thursday, and instead of its being a purely religious service, it was a university meeting with only a religious opening, followed by a speech from some lecturer whom we had induced to come. But the success of this did not happen for long time, for students attended at the last, that out of respect for a man we could not ask him to come to make an address.
MAY EXPRESS OPINION
"The teacher had to get student opinion on the subject of chapel said nothing about a change of hour, because we really had not thought seriously of making any change. We wanted student opinion on the matter as it stands now. When we need to make a change of hour, or have any remarks at all that they desire to make, I wish they would make them either on this card or in some form of a communication to us. There are few students here now who were here when the school opened, and the present generation would attend at that hour. I would like to hear expressions upon the subject, but we faculty men who have had experience with chapel all these years are very pleased to change the hour from where it now stands."
BELIEVES IN PRESENT PLAN
In spite of the small attendance at morning prayer service, Dean Tempel taught him. It takes he, he thinks, for a new institution like the daily chapel service, which was started here only last year, to gain a foothold in the life of the average student.
"Although neither the students nor the faculty are at present giving the morning prayers the attention they deserve," said the dean, thinking that he would like to give the service in time. These services are comparatively new here and have not yet had time to win a place in University activities. In other universities that I have visited, such services are much better at attracting students than not be discouraged because a majority of students fail to come. Regardless of this fact, however, I believe there is a place for morning prayers in the religious life of the student who does care to attend. We are going to some open music and in getting out of town speakers and we feel that we deserve some support from the students."
Greeks Will Smoke
One junior on the Hill holds the unusual opinion for a student that one should avail oneself of every opportunity for gaining information and knowledge, even when no disagreeable consequence has been expected to occur. "Do not say, 'What good will it do me?' say, 'What harm will it do me?'' is his advice.
The Pan-Hellenic smoker will be held at the F. A. U. Hall on the night of February 14. The features of February 14 will be put on by several of the fraternities.
To Speak On Cost System
To Speak On Cost System
W. B. Brown, an instructor in the department of Journalism, will talk on "The Kansas Printer and the Cost System," before the Graphic Arts Club at their annual dinner given at the Coates House in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, February 23.
Milton Heath, a junior in the College, from Burns, who was not in school last semester, returned Fridges to resume his work in the University.
GRADUATE CLUB WILL
GIVE INFORMAL PARTIES
in an effort to get its members together and form a better acquaintance among them, the Graduate Club held an informal mixer Friday evening in Robinson Gymnasium. The group was running in the place of meeting, only about thirty were present, but these lost their dignity in the games that followed. Miss Gladys Elliott gave several folk dances, after which seven of her friends served refreshed sandwiches, pickles, coffee ice cream and cake.
The return of spring has been accomplished by a complaint from some of the Engineering faculty that their classes are bothered by the excessive practice of the art of campury down by Potter's lake.
A business meeting was held at which the graduates voted to continue the practice of combining the general meeting with an informal party. A committee on arrangement sponsored Gladiios Elliott, Andrew Gransted and Anna Baker. The next meeting will be held sometime in March.
Mary Nicholson left Friday for Quenemo, where she visited her grandmother, Mrs. A. P. Morse, Saturday and Sunday.
The Tau Beta Pi fraternity gave its regular luncheon, Wednesday evening at the Oread Cafe. Dean Walker and Professors C. C. Williams, H. A. Roberts, F. L. Brown, J. D. Garner, Charles Cochran, and Geo. C. Shaad were present. Eight engineers from the junior class were also entertained.
Plain Tales from the Hill
Dr. Ward Cook, M.D., was a visitor at the Pi Upsilon house Thursday. He received his A. B, here in 1909 and was a member of the Pi Upsilon fraternity, Xigma Si, Nu Sigma Nu and Alpha Omega Alpha. The doctor is now house physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass.
her Home Brook has returned to her home in Junction City after spending Tuesday and Wednesday in Lawry, a charter school of Katherine Fogarty, '18 College.
Edmund C. Burke, a junior in the School of Engineering, from Lawrence, gave some numbers at the junior smoker with a unique musical instrument Wednesday evening. He calls his invention a loonylin. It is a simple contrivance made with the handle of a worn out broom and wire string. A cigar tool is used to hold the wick of the wire to obtain the pitch and also to serve as a sounding box. A bow similar to that used for a violin produces a wierd but musical tone when in the hands of an artist like Burke.
At 4:30 Thursday, an ice jam formed at the foot of the peers of the bridge above the Bowersock dam. For swilhe it looked dangerous for people to walk on it, which were erected recently. The ice shut off the water from the spillway of the power plant, but not for long as the pressure of the ice and water from up the river soon broke up the jam and it through the peers of the bridge.
Myrl Penny, a freshman Engineer,
eft Friday for Effingham, where he
will visit with his parents for a few
fews.
Coach Paterson says that if Kansas can down the Aggies in the indoor meet tonight at Manhattan, it is safe to play. The Indians meet the Tigers at Convention Hall on the evening of Friday, March 17. The men are all in good physical condition and only light sports will constitute the routine for today.
The Sigma Kappas were entertained Thursday evening by Frances Skinner. The occasion was Miss Skinner's birthday. She received a cookie from home, filled with cakes, candies, cookies, and other toffee-sweetes.
Mr. Floyd Ragle, football coach of Salina Wesleyan, will visit friends on the Hill the first of the week. Mr. Ragle and a graduate of Colorado College
Clara Gene Dains, a senior in the College, went to Abilene to visit Berryice Pickard from Friday until Tuesday. Miss Pickard graduated from the College last year and is now studying English in the Abilene high school.
The annual national convention of Mu Phi Epsilon, musical sorority, will be held this year in Cincinnati April 26, 27, and 28. The local chapter will be represented by Gladys Henry and Viola Jones.
"Nature has given woman sufficient protection for her head without any other covering than her hair," said an instructor in the department of English, and to prove her assertion she appeared "the entire winter bareheaded."
Send the Daily Kansan home
TO MEET WEDNESDAY
Journalists Will Organize Day Earlier on Account of Greek Smoker
On account of the Pan-Hellenic smoker, which is scheduled for next Thursday night and which might prevent many of the wearers of the corduroys from attending, the members of the department of journalism have decided to meet Wednesday evening, Feb. 23, to organize the department, instead of Thursday, Feb. 24, viously announced. The gathering will be the journalism building. Operations will begin at 8 o'clock sharp.
As the time for action draws near, interest in the affair is increasing. It becomes increasingly tectically every man and woman in the department has expressed himself or herself as being strong for the idea. All indications point to a peppy meet.
The details relative to the when and
now of the election of officers will be
added in next chapter.
All-University Party to Have Colonial Mansion Atmosphere
GYM WILL BE A GARDEN
A Colonial garden—that is what you will step into when you attend the All-University party. Soft, amber colored lights will remove the bare, everyday appearance of the gymnasium, and trolled lattices, with a colorful national courtyard that completely change the track and the basketball courts.
The seats around the floor will be kept in the same places as when used for basketball games, but the ugliness of the bare platform will be hidden by a low lattice work. At one end of the floor punch will be placed on the floor by young girls in colonial costume. You will enter the room through a kind of colonial arch.
The running track will be kept open for spectators and there will be the seats around the floor for those who do not care to dance. Before dancing goes there will be a reception for the students. At 7:30the Fine Arts students will give a program on the first floor of the gymnasium.
"We want everyone in the University to come to this party," said Mrs. Eustace Brown. "Last year the University women came without dates if they did not have them and the University men did that, so please that. We do it this year. It is not quite to be expected that everyone in the University will have dates for it. This party is for the whole University, and I want the men and women of the University to come just as they would to a basketball game. No one except those in the Minuet wrestling costume party. And people do not necessarily have to dress in evening costume."
All the work of the party is being done by students. The designs for the programs for the feature being prepared by the Fine Arts students and acuity were made by Don Davis and Robert Mason. The design for the dance programs has been submitted by Mary Stryker.
GOT YOUR PROM DATE YET?
Reporters Take Holiday
Better Get Busy, For Ticket Sale Is Booming
The farce has been done away with this year and dancing will start at eight o'clock. The big feature of the party will be the cabaret performance which will entertain the guests during dinner. Managers Foster and Friend saw acts in Kansas City before they arrived and are satisfied that they will please.
Have you made that date for the business? If not, you had better get busy.
The effort made by the managers to get the junior women to pay up their dues has met with decided success and this will help to make the Prom one in the history of the event. Norman Foster has charge of the decorating.
Send the Daily Kansan home
According to "Pluk" Friend, who has charge of the sale, the tickets for the big social extravaganza are going fast and therefore, by a process of deduction, it is established that the dates are going the same way.
Reporters Take Irides
Tomorrow being Washington's
birthday and a holiday
The University Dally Kansas will not be
issued.
Professor Todd, of the department of geology, caused considerable curiosity in his classes by seating the young students on the same side of a site sides of a center aisle. When asked the reason for this arrangement, Professor Todd explained that it not only made possible ease in talking to them but also that it was also conducive to good order.
Summer Session Gets 20 Per Cent Increase Over Last
$25,000 APPROPRIATED
A twenty per cent increase in the budget for the summer school was approved by the Board of Administration yesterday. An approximate appropriation of £25,000 for salaries was agreed to by the Board. This is about $5,000 more than was allowed last year.
Year
The increase was voted for the purpose of extending the scope of the summer session so as to reach more people. Courses will be offered in all departments of the School of Engineering, which there will be provided for. Seventy-one instructors will teach during the first six weeks and fifteen more will be added to the faculty during the last four weeks.
In addition to the salaries voted for the instructors an appropriation was allowed for the purpose of bringing five experts in the problems of school administration here for the summer session.
Wm. T. Bawden, of Washington, D. C. a specialist with the National Bureau of Education; Lewis W. Rapee, of the State College of Pennsylvania, an author of recent text books on school administration; James M. Gwin, of New Orleans, well known for his systems of rating and promoting teachers; Geo. Mulcher, director of the schools of research in the public schools of Kansas City; Supt. H. M. Wilson, author of a forthcoming book on socializing elementary school curriculum will make up the quintet of experts brought here by the School of Education.
"An effort will be made in the summer session this year to reach a greater number of people by means of the increase in courses did. J. Kelly of the School of Education. "A number of new courses are to be offered which have never been given before and particular opportunities remain for the School of Engineering because of the courses offered in every department of that school."
BACK TO CHILDHOOD DAYS
Home Economics Club Leave Dignity Behind—Kids Again
"At eight o'clock right on the dot, come all dressed up as a little toot, to room number two in Fraser Hall, there'll be fun and frolic for one and all." So read the invitation, to which about thirty members of the Home Economics Club responded Saturday evening.
Their friends would scarcely have recognized them, for short skirts, long curls and even pig-tails were out the rage. Even the instructors forged their own styles of being and decked themselves out in the attire of their childhood days.
They played "Drop the Handkerchief!" they had a "peanut hunt;" they sang kid songs; all together, they had a frolicking good time.
When they weared of games, they had refreshments of ice cream served in little cases and wafers in little boxes, all decorated with little flags, not to mention all day suckers so sticky and sweet.
Then, since the hour had come when children should be sound asleep, the party broke up, and the members rejoiced. I should make believe to that of real grown-ups.
An assortment of thirty-four authentic samples of drugs have just been received by Fort. C.M. (M.D.) the chemist of the Pharmacy they came from the department of agriculture and will be used for the purposes of identifying and comparing the qualities of the drugs in the pharmaceutical laboratories.
Pharmics Get Sample Drugs
These samples are of rather rare value Professor Sterling says, as they are absolutely pure and untainted from plants pounded from plants raised by the experts of the department of agriculture on the government farms, where it is pure from the impure drugs by the simple process of comparison.
Allene Wilson, '16, College, gave a whist party Wednesday night at her home at 1016 Tennessee street for the members of Mu Phi Epsilon sorority and their house mother, Mrs. Olin Bell.
MORNING PRAYERS
Week February 21 to 25
Leader, Rev. O. C. Brown, pastor of the First Baptist church, Lawrence.
Subjects:
Tuesday; (Holiday)
Wednesday; "Escaped From Despondency."
Thursday: "After the Prize.
Friday: "In the Hospital."
SECOND MIDDY DANCE
OF YEAR A SUCCESS
About one hundred and fifty girls attended the middy dance given by the W. S. G. A. Saturday afternoon in Robinson Gymnastium. Basket ball preliminaries were held before the dance began. Refreshments of punch and wafers were served. The practice of giving middy dances was begun last year, for the purpose of bringing the girls together for better acquaintance and a fun experience. No boys are allowed. This is the second time a middy dance has been given this year.
H. S. TOURNEY ON OREAD
Basket Tossers From Kansas Schools Will Compete at
K. U.
The ninth annual interscholastic basketball tournament, open to all Kansas high schools, will be held in the Robinson Gymnasium, Friday and Saturday, March 17 and 18, in connection with the annual conference of superintendents and principalship organizations of the Kansas state high schools athletic association, will be held at the same time.
The elimination of contestants will be conducted by congressional districts, and the eight winning teams play off the championship series.
Last year forty-five teams actually competed in the tournament, twenty-nine boys' and sixteen girls', representing high school all-around. $929 gate fees was divided among the contestants to be used toward defraying their expenses while at the meet. This year with greatly increased interest from sponsors, the attendance should be much larger with correspondingly larger receipts.
Entries to the meet are invited from all Kansas high schools which maintain *only boys*’ or *girls*’ basketball, either cup or girls’ engraved, will be presented to the winners in the boys' and girls' championships, and in the athletic association championships. The cup runners compete in all three championships.
The program has been changed this year to the extent that the girl's games will possibly be played separate from the boys, and will probably be played in the Lawrence high school gymnasium with spectators limited to women, or women with escorts, or by invitation.
The plan of last year of 10 minute halves without intermission for girls' games will be followed this year in the preliminary games. The semi-finals will be played with 15-minute-halves with the remainder of the finals will be played with 20 minute halves with 10-minute intermissions.
Longer periods for the preliminary games are considered as too much of a strain on the winning team, so they need to play five games in two days.
So large has the tournament grown that the committee can no longer promise free entertainment to the contestants, but they are doing all they can to obtain as much entertainment as possible.
STATE SHOULD OPERATE
MOVIES, SAYS McKEEVER
That the state of Kansas should own and control the "movies" and that by so doing a million dollars in school funds was the substance of a plan advanced by Prof. W. A. McKeever, head of the department of Child Welfare, last night at a joint session of the Y. M. and Y. W. in Hershey.
"The state of Kansas should take over the motion picture business just as it has the publication of text books," said Professor McKeever. The motion pictures today are our greatest asset, and if it is the hands of commercialists, were not in the hands of educators were it belongs.
"Our state censorship has done a most courageous and commendable work, but it is placed by law at the center of our system, five per cent of the films shown in Kansas today are cheap and mediocre productions and about half of them are depictions of some harsh realities and other form of moral despair."
"A state board of educators who had full control and management of motion pictures could, at present prices, clear a million dollars annually for the school fund and thus raise a much needed revenue.
The young women of the W. Y. C. A. will hold their meeting Tuesday afternoon in spite of the fact that Tuesday is a holiday and Tuesdays firefires affair which the women tell what the association has meant to them.
Y. W. Will Meet
RABBIT 'OWL' APPEARS
Third Year Publication Comes Out In Expurgated Form
EDITED FROM THE OUTSIDE
EDITED FROM OUTSIDE
Members of "Honor" Society Yield To Influence
Pale and wan, an expurgated edition of the "Sour Owl," publication of the junior "honor" society, appeared in its columns; its humor is buffo-searchlight of publicity burns feebly in its columns; its humon is buffo-ory. Its personal attacks are venomous and vitriolic in intent, but lack the wit of some of the hard-hitting characters. Its cynicism is weak and juvenile, and therefore disgusting. Purchasers of the sheet were free in expressing their disappointment.
Following the suppression of the original Owl through the influence of one of the fraternities whose members were struck off, the situation was struck off. The lead story "Honest Confession is Good for the Soul" was toned down, and permitted to run just as its principals desired. The character Susace Brown was likewise changed.
Stories of a night-time meeting of the Owls, a visit to the home of the Chancellor in the early morning, and an attempt to get an injunction have come to light since the original edition was printed. Students active in the move for suppression, failing in other means, persuaded the Owls in their favour that a brief warning would beable for them to sell the paper as it was first written. The one sold this morning, reprinted and revised, is the result.
WOMEN ARE OMITTED
WOMEN ARE OMITTED
The Owl omits mention of the women of the University, but says that a subsequent issue will not follow the same plan.
The Owl, according to its one editorial, "aims to expose practices that are harmful or selfish. ... It has adopted a policy of not mentioning the names of the weaker sex in such a manner," writes Wheeler. The latter part of the editorial reads; "to you outsiders who read the following and thoughtfully comb your beard remarking on the bad atmosphere at the University of Kansas, you who have about the deterioration at the University and turn about and vote against the mill tax and the approverate taxes," he writes. Then comes a denial of the existence of the very evil which the Owl attempts so ineffectually to proclaim.
AGAINST EASTERN STAR?
Fred Rockley, K. U's star track athlete in the middle distance runs, may have the honor of sharing headline honors with Ted Merdith, crack eastern star, in a special half mile race annual K. C. A., C. iour track meet Convention Hall in Kansas City Saturday night.
Rodkey May Compete With Merideth in Convention Hall
Dr. J. A. Reilly, director of the athletic club, has practically secured Meridite as an attraction and is now busy finding a fitting opponent for him. Rodkey's time in the half has been valuable, experimental, and many believe that the Kansas star will be able to give the easterner a great race. As far as comparative records go, Rodkey has made the distance in 1:56 on an outdoor track compared by 1:53 by Meridite. Indoors this season, the Jayhawker has negotiated the 880 yards in 2:04 on the misstored half-mile golf track, but it is not given away, facing the eastern star alone, it is sure that he will be one of the trio of Missouri Valley athletes who will be entered against him.
NOTED LINGUIST TO TELL OF TRAVELS AT VEREIN
The Rev, Father Ziegenfuss of Gohram, will speak on the interesting subject of his travels, to the members of the German Verein Monday afternoon at 4:30 in room 313, Frasher Hall.
Father Zeigenfuss is a noted lecturer and linguist. He spent twelve years of his early life in Rome studying for the priesthood. He taught in a boy's college in Budapest and spent some time traveling in Tyrol, Switzerland. He was sent to America by the Catholic church.
While in Lawrence, Father Zegennie
was the guest of the Phi Kappa.
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Mining,
Metallurgy and Geology honorary
fraternity, announces the pledging of
Paul Treetor, clay analyzer, Will-
son F. Hewett, senior College,
and Albert F. Snook, sophomore
Engineer.
Sham: Does your barber shut up Sunday?
Poo: No, he merely closes his shop.